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Note on the Comparative Susceptibility of Groundnut varieties to Aphis Craccivora koch

Volume : 68
Issue: Mar-mar
Pages: 207 - 208
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Abstract


The aphid, Aphis, craccivora Koch a serious pest of groundnut especially in those areas where rainfall is defici-ent. The studies were carried out at Punjab Agricultural University on the comparative resistance of different va-rieties to this pest. There were 19. varieties of spreading, 10 of semi-sprea-ding and 14 of bunch group. The plot size was three rows of 5 meter length and one blank row was left between the two plots. The row to row and plant to plant spacing was 30 cm and there were 3 replications The population of the aphids was counted from 10 randomly selected plants in each plot in the second fortnight of July.

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207 - 208
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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