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Table 1 Mean population of sucking insect pests (number/leaf) on different genotypes of cotton

From: Evaluation of cotton germplasm for morphological and biochemical host plant resistance traits against sucking insect pests complex

Genotypes

Whitefly

Thrips

Jassid

NIAB-Kiran

1.41 ± 0.21 f

2.24 ± 0.21 e

0.37 ± 0.06 cd

NIAB-878

1.60 ± 0.21 f

2.32 ± 0.22 de

0.31 ± 0.01 d

Sadori

1.66 ± 0.12 ef

2.53 ± 0.08 bcde

0.36 ± 0.05 cd

NIAB-112

1.96 ± 0.12 def

2.29 ± 0.30 e

0.48 ± 0.04 bc

NIA-H32

2.21 ± 0.14 cdef

2.35 ± 0.30 de

0.53 ± 0.06 bc

NIA-Bt.30

2.46 ± 0.13 cde

2.69 ± 0.23 bcde

0.43 ± 0.04 bcd

NIA-H67

2.50 ± 0.42 cd

3.03 ± 0.07 b

0.56 ± 0.08 b

NIA-HM48

2.58 ± 0.10 cd

2.98 ± 0.13 bc

0.48 ± 0.04 bc

NIA-H24

2.72 ± 0.57 cd

2.40 ± 0.17 cde

0.57 ± 0.08 b

NIA-M30

2.89 ± 0.19 c

2.89 ± 0.29 bcd

0.56 ± 0.06 b

NIA-82

4.07 ± 0.40 b

2.96 ± 0.16 bc

0.52 ± 0.04 bc

Glandless-1 (Susceptible Check)

4.95 ± 0.26 a

3.70 ± 0.13 a

0.78 ± 0.08 a

  1. These are the means of the season in which population of the sucking insect pests were recorded
  2. Means sharing similar letters in columns are not significantly different by LSD test at the 0.05 probability level (P > 0.05)