Vol. 12, Issue 8 (2023)

Author(s):
Aashish Deshmukh, Reeti Singh, Pramod Fatehpuria and Praveen Kumar Prajapati

Abstract:
Urdbean (Vigna mungo L. Hepper), which is also known as black gram, udad, urd and udid in india. It is one of the commercially important legume crop, domesticated from V. mungo var. silvestris, belongs to the sub-genus Ceratotropis. It is extensively cultivated in the Indian sub-continent in all the three seasons such as in Kharif, Rabi, and Summer throughout the country and to a lesser extent in Thailand, Australia along with other Asian and South-Pacific countries. The food value of urdbean lies in its high and easily digestible protein. Being one of the important legume crop of India. It is edible in the form of ‘dal’ (split, whole, husked and un-husked) or perched. Apart from this, urdbean is very nutritive and useful for milch cattle in the form of green fodder. Colletotrichum lindemuthianum (Sacc. and Magn.) in urdbean cause considerable yield damage to the crop upto 80-100 percent under suitable weather conditions. The screening of twenty urdbean genotypes against anthracnose disease showed, none of the them were found to be highly resistant to C. lindemuthianum. Two cultivars (PU 1617 and PU 1514) were found moderately resistant. Three cultivars (VBG 12-034, KPU 520-69 and KU 96-3 were found moderately susceptible. Thirteen cultivars (Azad -3, PU 31, LBG 752, PU 14-19, TBG 12, NGU 24, IPU 72, KU 17-08, TPU 4, Uttara, TU 94-2 and T-9 were found to be susceptible, while two cultivars (AKU 1608 and SBC 50) were found to be highly susceptible.