Forty-two pepper line seeds obtained from the
surveillance locations with the desirable characteristic of
high yield were screened for resistance to virus diseases
under field conditions. The seedlings were prepared in
an insect-tight screen house at National Horticultural
Research Institute Ibadan (NIHORT) and the pepper
lines were transplanted in February 2017 and repeated
in February 2018. The experiment was laid out in
Randomised Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three
replicates. The incidence of infection was visually
observed with symptoms description and the percentage
incidence grouping of infection is taken in the scale of
Keywords :
DAS ELISA, Tomato lines, Cucumber mosaic virus, Tomato mosaic virus, Potato virus Y.