Several bruchid species attack stored pulses including those belonging to Vigna species.
Wild Vigna accessions offer a host of useful traits for improvement of their cultivated types
and hence 42 endemic wild Vigna accessions from 13 species were screened against three
cosmopolitan bruchid species viz., Callosobruchus maculatus (F.), C. chinensis L. and C.
analis (F.). The accessions exhibited varied reactions to three bruchid species and were
categorized based on two criteria-seed damage (SD) and susceptibility index (SI). Based on …