Technologies

Agricultural Sciences

Title:

Mass rearing of Brinjal shoot and fruit borer

Area:

Agricultural Sciences

Sub Area:

Food development

Focus Area:

Agriculture

Developing Agency:

Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Bengaluru

Technology Readiness Index:

Technology developed

Email:

director.iihr@icar.gov.in
Website Link :https://iihr.res.in/mass-rearing-brinjal-shoot-and-fruit-borer-leucinoides-arbonalis-guenee

Brief Description

Description :

Brinjal shoot and fruit borer is a typical holometabolous and monophagus lepidopteran pest. Sufficiently large population of different stages of this insect are needed to undertake screening of Bt transgenic Brinjal plants for challenge inoculation based resistance phenotyping.

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