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MYCOFLORA
ASSOCIATED WITH LENTIL (LENS ESCULENTA MOENCH) SEEDS FROM FIVE
LOCALITIES
OF
PUNJAB, PAKISTAN
MUHAMMAD ARSHAD HUSSAIN1,
TARIQ MUKHTAR2*, M. IRFAN
UL-HAQUE2 AND MUHAMMAD ZAMEER KAYANI3
Abstract: Twenty
five samples of lentil (Lens esculenta Moench) seed collected
from the markets of Faisalabad, Dera Ghazi Khan, Bahawalpur, Jampur and
Rojhan were analyzed for externally and internally seed-borne fungi. The
infestation of untreated seed samples varied from 43.3 to 51.4% with an
average of 46.96%, while the seeds treated with 2% Mercuric chloride
solution showed the infestation from 18.0 to 22.4% with an average of
20.4% on blotter paper. On PDA the infestation of untreated seed samples
were from 48.2 to 58.8% with an average of 52.52%, while the seeds
treated with 2% Mercuric chloride solution, showed an infestation of
18.8 to 23.6% with an average of 20.87%.The fungi isolated from treated
seeds were Fusarium moniliforme,
Alternaria alternata, Mucor hiemalis, Chaetomium spp., Penicillium
citrinum, Aspergillus niger, A. flavus, A .terreus and Nigrospora
spp., F. moniliforme, A. alternata, M. hiemalis, Chaetomium spp., and A.
niger were common in all samples while P.
citrinum, A. flavus, A. terreus and Nigrospora
spp., were only isolated from untreated seed.
1Regional Agricultural Research Institute, Bahawalpur,Pakistan.
2Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arid Agriculture,
Rawalpindi,Pakistan
3Greenbelt Project, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
*Corresponding author’s E-mail: drtmukhtar@uaar.edu.pk |
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