_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: E-mail: vijaykn549@gmail.com; Int. J. Environ. Clim. Change, vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 229-233, 2022 International Journal of Environment and Climate Change Volume 12, Issue 12, Page 229-233, 2022; Article no.IJECC.93810 ISSN: 2581-8627 (Past name: British Journal of Environment & Climate Change, Past ISSN: 2231–4784) Identification of Garlic Genotypes for Resistant Sources against Purple Blotch Disease K. N. Vijaykumar a* , Shripad Kulkarni a , T. R. Shashidhar b , S. M. Hiremath b , Vijay Mahajan c , Anil Khar d , D. N. Kambrekar e and P. V. Patil a a Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India. b Department of Horticulture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India. c ICAR-Directorate of Onion and Garlic, Rajgurunagar, Pune, India. d ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. e Department of Agricultural Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. Author KNV carried out the research work and wrote the protocol. Author SK designed the study. Author TRS supervised the work. Author SMH managed the literature searches. Authors VM and AK provided the genotypes for evaluation. Authors PVP and DNK wrote the first draft of manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/IJECC/2022/v12i121458 Open Peer Review History: This journal follows the Advanced Open Peer Review policy. Identity of the Reviewers, Editor(s) and additional Reviewers, peer review comments, different versions of the manuscript, comments of the editors, etc are available here: https://www.sdiarticle5.com/review-history/93810 Received: 12/09/2022 Accepted: 14/11/2022 Published: 22/11/2022 ABSTRACT Garlic is an herbaceous annual bulbous plant in the family Amaryllidaceae grown for its pungent and edible bulb. Among the various biotic factors hindering production and productivity, purple blotch plays a predominant role in changing the crops morpho-physiological characters, thus deteriorating the metabolic activity in turn affecting the yield considerably. Fungicides have been Original Research Article