Author(s): JD Dobaria, JJ Dhruv and Mihir Pandya

Abstract: Small farmers cultivating Brinjal fight against various pest-insect by spraying pesticide which is harmful. Use of biostimulants is cheaper and less harmful than using a chemical insecticide. Thus, the purpose of this experiment was to ascertain how biostimulants, such as seed priming and foliar application, affected the population dynamics of insect-pest at two different stages. We investigated Brinjal leaf palatability to jassid, aphid and little leaf in plants treated with silicon and tryptophan subjected to biochemical analysis. We also examined the effects of those treatments on Brinjal. The experimental study was carried out as a completely randomized design, consisting of the ten treatments of both biostimulants in two genotypes of Brinjal. The experimental results revealed that the foliar spray of typtophan (200 ppm) at vegetative stage positively impacted on all parameters.

DOI: 10.33545/26174693.2024.v8.i6Se.1312