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Host Plant Resistance to Insects: Potential and Limitations 89<br />

FIGURE 4.5 Wild relatives of chickpea (Cicer bijugum, Cicer judaicum, and Cicer microphyllum) that have shown<br />

high levels of resistance to pod borer, Helicoverpa armigera.<br />

In sorghum, accessions belonging to Sorghum laxifl orum Bailey, S. australiense Garber &<br />

Snyder, S. brevocallosum Garber, S. dimidiatum Stapf., S. matarkense Garber, S. nitidum (Vahl)<br />

Pers., S. purpureosericeum (Hochst. Ex A. Rich.), S. timorense (Kunth) Buse, S. versicolor<br />

Andersson, S. angustum S.T. Blake, S. ecarinatum Lazarides, S. exstans Lazarides, S. interjectum<br />

Lazarides, and S. intrans F. Mull. ex Benth. are highly resistant to sorghum shoot fl y, A.<br />

soccata. Sorghum laxifl orum, S. australiense, S. brevocallosum, S. dimidiatum, S. matarkense,<br />

S. nitidum, S. purpureosericeum. S. timorense, S. versicolor, S. angustum, S. ecarinatum, S. exstans,<br />

S. interjectum, S. stipoideum (Ewart & Jean White) C. Gardener and C.E. Hubb., and S. intrans are<br />

resistant to spotted stem borer, C. partellus (Venkateswaran, 2003). Sorghum midge, S. sorghicola,<br />

females did not lay any eggs in the spikelets of S. angustum, S. amplum Lazarides, and<br />

S. bulbosum Lazarides compared to 30 eggs in spikelets of S. halepense (L.) Pers. under nochoice<br />

conditions (Sharma and Franzmann, 2001). Odors from the panicles of S. halepense<br />

are more attractive to the females of sorghum midge than the odors from panicles of<br />

S. stipoideum, S. brachypodum Lazarides, S. angustum, S. macropsermum Garber, S. nitidum,<br />

S. laxifl orum, and S. amplum. In the case of rice, Oryza eichingeri A. Peter has shown high<br />

levels of resistance to brown planthopper, N. lugens and the green leafhopper, Nephotettix<br />

sp.; O. brachyantha A. Chev. et Roehr., and O. minuta J.S. Presl. ex C.B. Presl. to yellow stem<br />

borer, C. suppressalis; and O. alta Swallen. and O. ridleyi Hook. f. to striped rice stem borer,<br />

S. incertulas (Khush, 1977; Khush and Brar, 1991; Brar and Khush, 1997). In the case of wheat,<br />

the wild relatives Aegilops tauschii (Coss.) Schmal., Triticum ventricosum Ces. (Syn. Aegilops<br />

ventricosa Tausch.), and T. turgidum L. are resistant to Hessian fl y, M. destructor; and T. monococcum<br />

L. and T. turgidum to Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Kurdj.) (Clement, 2002).<br />

Inducible Resistance<br />

Induced resistance is the qualitative and/or quantitative enhancement of a plant’s defense<br />

mechanisms against insect pests in response to extrinsic physical or chemical stimuli.<br />

Induced resistance results in changes in a plant that produce a negative effect on herbivores<br />

(Karban and Baldwin, 1997). Earlier research in host-pathogen systems documented that<br />

protection could be effective for a week or more (McIntyre and Dodds, 1979; Chaudary,

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