11160a) was moderately resistant, whereas in our study a
fairly high number of resistant accessions were observed.
It was observed from the present study that charcoal
rot at seedling stage caused high level of infection to a
large number of accessions, thus it is suggested that a
large number of germplasm lines may be screened at
seedling stage with this technique to save time and labour.
The genotypes those exhibited resistance are suggested to
be screened under field conditions to confirm the level of
resistance at adult plant stage. Screening with the help of
this technique not only save the resources, time and
labour but it can be applied at any time and anywhere
because screening under field is tedious job.