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Abstract
Evaluation of the selected eggplant and tomato varieties produced promising results this year. Against bacterial wilt disease, ten eggplant varieties showed resistant reactions; five of them were also resistant last year. None of the tomato entries, however, was resistant to BW. All of the ten selected eggplant varieties exhibitedresistance to RKN which include two cultivated varieties. Among the test tomato varieties, 9 were moderately resistant to RKN; two of them also produced the same reaction last year. Among the 32 tomato varieties tested against YLCV disease, 12 were selected as resistant and 9 as moderately resistant; 8 of these selected ones are improved BARI varieties recommended for on-farm usc. Five eggplant varieties were selected from the field trials having high resistance to FSB, 3 as resistant and 10 as moderately resistant. From the same trial, one resistant and 12 moderately resistant eggplant varieties were selected against jassids. Several of the eggplant varieties have multiple resistance to different pests.