Pathology and control of seed mycoflora of some vegetables in Kerala
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Date
1983
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Kerala Agricultural University
Abstract
The survey of the seed mycoflora of certain vegetable seeds viz., amaranthus,
bhindi, bittergourd brinjal, cowpea, cucumber, pumpkin, snakegourd and
tomato revealed that storage fungi \\keAspargiflusflavus, Aspergil/us riiger and
Rhizopus stolonifer were externally as well as internally seed-borne in a/most all
the vegetable seeds taken for the study and were found to cause maximum
inhibition in germination of the seeds, from which they were isolated. Seedling
rotting was caused by Fusarium equiseti on amaranthus, Aspergillus niger on
amaranthus and bhindi, Drechslera rostrata on cowpea, and Rhizopus stolonifer
on tomato. In vitro evaluation of fungicides showed that Thiride was found to
be superior to all other fungicides tested against the seed-borne fungi.
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Agricultural Research Journal of Kerala, 21(2), 32-37.