🍆 Brinjal

• Botanical Name: Solanum melongena
• Family: Solanaceae
• Bitterness is due to presence of glycoalkaloids.
• Pigment present in brinjal is Anthocyanin.

• Brinjal fruits are good source of Vitamin B.
• Seed rate: 200 g/ha for nursery sowing

Varieties

• Pusa purple long (Extra early maturity)
• Pant samrat (Phomopsis blight and bacterial wilt resistant).
• Black beauty (Nematode resistant)
• Arka sheel, Arka nidhi

Hybrid

• Pusa bindu
• Pusa upkar
• Pusa bhairav (Phomopsis blight resistant)
• Arka navneet (Highest yielding)
• Arka neelkantha (Nematode resistant)
• Annamalai: Aphid resistant, recommended for TN
• Arka keshav

Insect

• Fruit and shoot borer:

  • Leucinodes orbonalis, Pyralidae, Lepidoptera (Major pest of brinjal).
  • Cause ‘dead heart’ in young plants, tender growing shoot is killed by larvae in early stage and later bore into fruits.
  • It can be managed by application of Spirotetramat 150 SC @ 75 g a.i. /ha. or Flubendiamide 48 SC @ 60 g a.i. /ha.

    

• Hadda beetle:

  • Epilachna vignitictopunctata (F. Coccinelidae)

    

• Brinjal Brown leaf hopper:

• Cestius phycitis (vector of little leaf of brinjal).
• The white flies and jassids/leaf hopper in brinjal can be controlled by application of lmidacloprid 200 SL @ 75 g a.i /ha
• Ash weevils:
  • Myllocerus subfasciatus

Diseases:

• Little leaf of brinjal
  • Due to Mycoplama
  • Transmitted by leaf hoppers: Cestius phycitis