title: Resistance to foliage feeding aphid in wheat.
abstract: Experimental trials were conducted at Integrated Pest Management Programme, National Agriculture Research Centre Islamabad, to evaluate the resistance of host plants (cereals) against Rhopalosiphum padi (L.). For evaluation of susceptibility, twenty varieties/-advanced lines of National Uniform Wheat Yield Trails (NUWYT) Normal (N) of year 2004-2005 were used. In seedling bulk tests varieties/advanced lines were grouped into three categories resistant, moderately resistant and susceptible. Data from seedling bulk tests showed that DN-47 and PR 87 lines of wheat were resistant to aphid as compared to the other varieties/-advanced lines. In antixenosis tests varieties/-advanced lines were grouped into three categories, least preferred, moderately preferred, highly preferred. Lines V-01180, DN-47 and PR-84 were least preferred, sixteen varieties/-advanced lines were moderately preferred and only one variety V-9021 was found to be highly preferred.
authors.affiliation: National Agriculture Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Naheed
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Akhtar
authors.forename: Muhammad Bilal
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Anwar
authors.forename: Ghulam
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jilani
authors.forename: Habib Iqbal
authors.initials: HI
authors.lastname: Javed
authors.forename: Shaheena
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yasmin
authors.forename: Irshad
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Begum
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001042:Aphids / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000235:genetics*; D004463:Ecology; D014644:Genetic Variation; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010571:Pest Control; D010572:Pest Control, Biological; D010935:Plant Diseases; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000378:metabolism; D012639:Seeds; D014908:Triticum / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*