author(s)
Anubhav Galav, AK Bhowmick, Anubhuti Pandey and Ravindra Meena

abstract
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) are one of the oldest and most widely consumed legumes in the world, particularly in tropical and subtropical areas. This study was conducted at Breeding farm of AICRP chickpea JNKVV Jabalpur. Screening of different genotypes of chickpea against Helicoverpa armigera (H) was done within the 15 genotypes of deshi chickpea named as T₁ (JG 31), T₂ (ICCV 07117), T₃ (JG 130×ICC 11551), T₄ JG 14-16×JG 11), T₅ (JG 24), T₆ (DRRJ 2×KAK 2), T₇ (JG 30), T₈ (JG 9605), T₉ (JG 14-11), T₁₀ (JG 14), T₁₁ (JG 14×IPC 4958), T₁₂ (JG 14-16), T₁₃ (JG 32), T₁₄ (JG 74×IPC 4958), T₁₅ (JGG2). The experiment is replicated thrice under randomized block design. Significantly least (0.46 larvae/plant) population was recorded in the genotype JG14-16XJG11 and genotypes ICCV 07117 (0.48 larvae/plant), while the genotype JG 130 X ICC 11551 had the highest population (0.81 larvae/plant) and JGG 2 (0.75 larvae/plant) and JG 14-16 X JG 11 had significantly lowest pod damage (09.73%) among all the deshi genotypes, followed by ICCV 07117 (11.23%), on the other side highest pod damage percentage was noted in the genotypes JG 130 X ICC 11551 (23.91%), followed by JG 9605 (23.73%).