EVALUATION OF BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS OF OKRA GERMPLASM FOR RESISTANCE AGAINST JASSIDS, AMRASCA BIGUTTULA BIGUTTULA (ISHIDA)YOGESH KUMAR H D, JAYARAJ PADHI, LADU KISHORE RATH, GOURI SHANKAR SAHU AND MEENU KUMARIAbstract Biochemical components of okra germplasm were assessed for resistance or susceptibility to the leafhopper, Amrasca biguttula biguttula (Ishida) at All India Coordinated Research Project on Vegetable Crops, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology and Central Horticultural Experiment Station,Bhubaneswar during three consecutive seasons of kharif, 2018, summer, 2019 and kharif, 2019. The results revealed that the total sugar, reducing sugar, total protein, total phenol and total chlorophyll content in different okra germplasm varied from 2.84 % to 5.51 %, 0.28 % to 0.56 %, 0.75 to 2.10 mg/g, 0.52 to 1.35 mg/g and 1.04 to 2.29 mg/g, respectively. The okra germplasm BBSR-37, BBSR-36, Pusa A-4, BBSR-57, BBSR- 3 and BBSR-4 were found to be resistant to leafhopper, with BBSR-4 being moderately resistant, BBSR-09- 6 susceptible besides Pusa Sawani and BBSR-53 being highly susceptible. |