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Table 1. Response of menthol mint varieties/genotypes to rust, powdery mildew, leaf spot, leaf blight, and stem
blackening and rot
Variety
Damroo 7.3 16.6 13.6 18.3 13.9
Gomti 51.6 8.5 54.4 56.5 8.7
Himalaya 3.2 18.8 4.5 13.3 39.2
Kalka 3.8 49.6 5.6 5.2 32.4
Kosi 2.8 9.5 3.1 4.1 6.9
Shivalik 53.9 38.1 52.4 60.2 50.9
Genotype
MAH-3 13.7 30.3 33.5 26.0 33.5
SS-1-4 28.9 28.1 37.6 36.6 26.7
SS-15 44.0 37.1 44.1 46.2 40.7
S-10-11-45 13.9 26.7 23.5 32.7 16.8
S-13-2-125 11.6 27.1 24.5 35.4 23.4
No. of varieties/genotypes/diseases No. of varieties/genotypes exhibiting disease reaction to different combinations of diseases
Reaction 1 2 3 4 5 1&2 1&3 1&4 1&5 2&3 2&4 2&5 3&4 3&5 4&5
R 4 2 3 2 2 1 3 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1
MR 3 2 1 2 2 – – – 1 1 2 1 1 1 1
MS 1 3 2 1 2 1 – – 1 2 – 2 – 1 –
S 1 3 3 4 4 1 1 1 1 2 1 3 2 2 1
HS 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1
R, Resistant; MR, Moderately resistant; MS, Moderately susceptible; S, Susceptible; HS, Highly susceptible.
1, Rust; 2, Powdery mildew; 3, Leaf spot; 4, Leaf blight; 5, Stem blackening and rot.
Figure 1. Menthol mint genotype showing disease reactions. a, Rust susceptible cv. Shivalik.
b, Powdery mildew susceptible cv. Kalka. c, Multiple disease-resistant cv. Kosi.
as resistant; 10.1–20% as moderately re- diseases (Table 1). Himalaya and Dam- blight, but was found susceptible to
sistant; 20.1–30.0% as moderately sus- roo was resistant to rust, moderately re- powdery mildew, and stem blackening
ceptible; 30.1–50.0% as susceptible, and sistant to powdery mildew and leaf blight. and rot. The variety Shivalik showed
50.1–100.0% as highly susceptible. Genotypes MAH-3, S-10-11-45 and S- highly susceptible reaction to all the dis-
Among the varieties/genotypes tested 13-2-125 were moderately resistant to eases, with more than 50% damage and
for multiple disease resistance of menthol rust, but moderately susceptible to other complete defoliation (Figure 1 a and b).
mint, only the variety Kosi was found to diseases (Table 1). The variety Kalka A study of menthol mint varieties/
be resistant against all the five fungal was resistant to rust, leaf spot and leaf genotypes to different combinations of