Seed-borne fungi of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf)‎ cultivars grown in Duhok province, Kurdistan region, Iraq

Joint Authors

Atrushi, Helben I. M.
Abd Allah, Samir K.

Source

ZANCO Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences

Publisher

Salahaddin University-Erbil Department of Scientific Publications

Publication Date

2017-08-31

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

10

Main Subjects

Biology
Botany

English Abstract

The study was carried out to investigate the seed borne fungi associated with different cultivars of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) grown in Duhok province, Kurdistan region, Iraq.

A total of 12 seed samples were surveyed for the associated mycoflora using standard agar plate, blotter paper and freezing methods.

A total of 21 fungal species assigned to 14 genera were identified.

The most common genera in descending order of their isolation frequency were Cladosporium, Penicillium, Alternaria, Aspergillus, Ulocladium, Arthrinium and Chaetomium.

Alternaria alternata,Cladosporium herbarum,Aspergillus flavus, A.niger, and Arthrinium phaeospermum were the most frequent species.

Ascad cultivar showed the highest number of detected species (13 species), whereas the lowest number (7 species) were isolated from Sham 3 cultivar.

Ascad cultivar (sample 2).

Sham 3 (sample 5) and Simeto (sample 7) showed the highest mean percentage contamination (71.0%, 68.5% and 57.0%) respectively.

The results showed a variation in the fungal composition, number of detected species and percentage contamination according to detection method and cultivar type.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-1389306

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