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POST INFECTIONAL CHANGES IN GROUNDNUT LEAVES IN- DUCED BY GROUNDNUT BLIGHT PATHOGEN

Volume : 78
Issue: Jan-apr
Pages: 44 - 48
Published: August 16, 2023
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Abstract


Post-infectional change in contents of total carbohydrate, total nitrogen, total phenolics, nucleic acids and chlorophyll fractions in the leaves of three groundnut genotypes with varying levels of resistance to blight caused by Phoma microspora Balasubrm, et Narayan., was studied. Total carbohydrate contents of the resistant variety, Ah 8446 and the tolerant variety, POL 2 showed only a marginal variation, while the highly susceptible OSN 2 registered significant increases. There was no appreciable change in total nitrogen content in the resistant variety consequent on inoculation. Increase in the total phenolics contents was significantly greater in the highly susceptible OSN 2 than others. There was no significant alteration in the contents of RNA and DNA in the resistant and tolerant varieties while reduction in the contents of chlorophyll was maximum in the highly susceptible variety.

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44 - 48
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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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Groundnut blight Resistance mechanism
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