Health Status of Farmers’ Saved Seed of Various Paddy Varieties in Haryana, India

Mycofloral Diversity and Molecular Characterization of Species Isolated from Farmer-Saved Rice Seeds in the Irrigated Rice Production Districts of the Coastal Savannah Zones of Ghana

“…Osumanu, (2012) identified 12 different fungi on farmer saved seeds from some selected farmers in the same study area. In India, as many as 30 different fungi were identified from farmer saved seeds of paddy rice (Kumar et al, 2014). Results from this current study is a further confirmation that farmer-saved seeds are often contaminated with fungal species.…”

“…All the 11 fungal species obtained in this study have been associated with either seeds of rice or of other crops such as legumes and other cereals (Nutsugah et al, 2004;Haque et al, 2007;Kumar et al, 2014). Generally, C. lunata was one of the most prevalent fungal species found in the rice seeds in the study area.…”

“…worldwide on farmer-saved rice (Mew and Gonzales, 2002;Kumar et al, 2014) and their incidence on these seeds has been demonstrated to correlate negatively with percentage germination and seedlings vigour (Haque et al, 2007;Kumar et al, 2014). In this study, 11 seed borne fungal species from 8 different genera were recorded from a total of 75 samples of farmer saved seeds obtained from the coastal savannah zone of Ghana.…”

“…Every seed sample collected from the study area harbored at least one fungal (Table 4). This high incidence of fungal species on the farmer-saved seeds could be an indication that the farmers were not storing their seeds under good hygienic conditions (Kumar et al, 2014). In such a case, there is a high likelihood that these seeds will perform poorly in terms of percentage germination and seedlings vigour.…”

​Effect of Seed Treatments and Storage Period on Seed Health Parameters of Pea (Pisum sativum L.) under Ambient Storage Conditions

“…However, as expected higher seedling vigour was observed in seeds treated with Captan or Carbendazim as against untreated seed in both the cultivars, irrespective of storage duration. The seedling vigour is challenged with the increase in storage of pea seeds, it gets decreased due to direct reduction in per cent germination and also due to increased incidence of seed mycoflora during storage which adversely Effect of Seed Treatments and Storage Period on Seed Health Parameters of Pea (Pisum sativum L.) under Ambient Storage Conditions affect the seedling growth parameters (Kumar et al 2014;Chandel and Kumar, 2017;Wang et al 2018).…”