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Root surface fungi of Crotalaria

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An agar-slide technique which provides scope for development up to sporulation stage of fungi occurring on root surfaces, aiding better evaluation of root surface mycoflora is described. As, by this method, it is possible to observe the pattern of attachment of spores to sporophores, identification is facilitated.

Results of a study of the root surface fungi ofCrotolaria juncea L. seedlings healthy and DEMV infected from the day after sowing till the infected plants withered away, for different root lengths from the base of the stem, employing this technique are reported here and discussed.

The following genera of fungi, seldom observed on soil dilution plates in a parallel study, were recorded in this study: Acremonium, Cephalotrichum, Cunninghamella, Drechslera, Fusarium, Memnoniella, Pullularia and some phycomycetes.

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  1. University Botany Laboratory, Madras, India

    K. Sivasithamparam & Miss C. B. Sulochana

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Memoir No.40 from the Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany, University Botany Laboratory, Madras-5, India.

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Sivasithamparam, K., Sulochana, M.C.B. Root surface fungi of Crotalaria. Plant Soil 30, 34–40 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01885258

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