Authors : Patil S. A. & H. B. Waghire
Page Nos : 226-229
Description :
Identification of seed borne fungi of common Seeds from Ahmadnagar market was conducted. A total of nine fungi namely Aspergillus, Penicilium, Rhizopus, Verticilium, Alternaria, Monilia, Fusarium, Helmintosporium, Mucor, and there different species were isolated from the five different seed samples namely groundnut. (Arachis hypogea), maize. (Zea mays) gram. (Cicerarietinum), jawar. (Sorghum vulgare), pea. (Pisumsativum). In the present study we studied external and internal different fungus on the basis of their growth of the colony, color, spore and mycelium morphology of seeds from Ahmadnagar seed market. Occurance of common fungi like Aspergillus (four species), Penicilium ( two species on the basis of colour), Mucor, Rhizopus etc. But Seed borne fungi like Fusarium, Verticilum, Gliocladium, Cladosporium as such have occurred on few seeds. On the other hand Alternaria, Drechslera, Helminthosporium, occurred on jawar seeds. These fungi have production of masses of conidiospores also and the study on seed borne fungi by blotter method has shown occurrence of few forms but culturing seeds on medium showed excellent response. On CD Amedium more forms have been recorded than PDA Medium. It may be due to balanced dose of nutrients in a medium. I n particular Alternaria, Helmithosporium, Fusarium occurred profusely on many cultured seed material
