Under pot culture
The screening of germplasm was also carried out under pot culture, for which seeds were first treated
with carbendazim (0.1 per cent) and sowing was done in the first week of February. The seedlings were
immersed for thirty minutes in the conidial suspension of Colletotrichum capsici (107 spores/ml) before
transplanting into the pots. The plants were sprayed with the inoculum at the time of fruit setting to ensure
challenge to the plants with the adequate pathogen load. The pots were regularly irrigated and to maintain the
moisture the pots were covered with polythene bags for the initial 24 hours after inoculation. The experiment
was laid under completely randomized design with three replications and the observations in terms of per cent
disease intensity and disease reaction of each genotype were recorded as in field condition.