Evaluation of resistance to bacterial wilt and Verticillium wilt in eggplants (Solanum melongena L.) collected in Malaysia

Abstract

Sixty accessions of eggplants collected in Malaysia were evaluated for their resistance to bacterial wilt. Verticillium wilt and Fusarium wilt, caused by Pseudomonas solanacearum. Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum, respectively. In the evaluation of the field infected with P. solanacearum more than 60% of the accessions were resistant. Based on the evaluation at the seedling stage of the resistant accessions, LS1934 was judged to be the most resistant accession to bacterial wilt, but most of the same accessions were not resistant to Verticillium wilt. LS2436 was the only accession with a relatively high resistance to Verticillium wilt. LS1934 and LS2436 were also resistant to Fusarium wilt.