• Keshav Kumar
• Sumant Pal
• Dr. Yendrembam Krishnakumari Devi

Plants have several natural defenses that offer resistance to a number of insect pests as well as non-insect pests that attack them. In tomato, plant defense includes trichome length, trichome density leaf lamina thickness, etc., offers defense mechanism to the insects. Plant use various strategies to defend against insect pest of tomato. At a time when the chemical insecticides do not offer the defense to insect attack, these plant morphological characters do the work.

Morphological characters, Resistance, Trichome, Thickness, Whitefly

"Morpho-physical characteristic in tomato imparting resistance to sucking pest whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius): A review", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 12, page no.1512-1522, December-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2012197.pdf

"Morpho-physical characteristic in tomato imparting resistance to sucking pest whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius): A review", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 12, page no. pp1512-1522, December-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2012197.pdf