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Research Article | Open Access | Peer Review

OVIPOSITIONAL PREFERENCE OF Helicoverpa armigera TO TOMATO CULTIVARS

Volume : 83
Issue: May-may
Pages: 306 - 307
Published: July 06, 2023
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Abstract


Laboratory and field experiments on the ovipositional preference of Helicoverpa urmigera (Hubner) on tomato revealed that more eggs were laid on the under surface of leaves than on the petiole, inter nodal stem and calyx. Hairy varieties received more eggs than the glabrous varieties. The cultivar Paiyur-1 combining the character of less trichromes and longer calyx received less eggs than the cultivars Madanapalli and PKM-1,

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306 - 307
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© The Author(s), 2025. 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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Helicoverpa armigera Tomato Types Oviposition Trichomes
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