Studies on seed Mycoflora of Chick Pea (Cicer arietinum)

Abstract

Chick Pea (Cicer arietinum) is major pulse crops grown in India. The seed mycoflora was screened by using agar plate method. Seeds sample of these pulse crops was used in the study and results were obtained from untreated and treated seeds. The untreated seeds were found to be associated with highest percent incidence of mycoflora. In case of untreated seeds the percent incidence of Aspergillus niger (15.85%) was the highest followed byA. flavus (14.82%), Chaetomium globosum (14.75%), Dresclera rostrata (14.5%), where as all other fungi were within the range of (13.90 to0.70%)