OBSERVATIONS ON SEED BORNE FUNGI IN BUTEA MONOSPERMA AND PTEROCARPUS MARSUPIUM
Keywords:
Blotter paper, Butea monosperma, Chaetomium, fungi, Fusarium and growth.Abstract
Aspergillus sp., Fusarium sp., Chaetomium sp. and Rhizopus sp. are observed in Butea monosperma and Pterocarpus marsupium seed germination. These fungi were identified based on growth patterns and colour of colony. The growth of Aspergillus was rapid and produce spore within 3-4 days and showing yellow green colony. Fusarium and Chaetomium species was rapid and matured in 5 days. White colony observed in Fusarium sp. with two type of conidia (macro and micro). Chaetomium growth was cottony, spreading and usually white, becoming gray and brown at initial stage and brown to black coloured colony found at maturity. Rhizopus was cottony candy like, colony colour white at initial stage and changing to gray and yellowish brown after some time.
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