Abstract
Seed-borne fungi from seeds of barley, canary, maize, oats, rice, rapeseed, red millet, sunflower, white millet and yellow millet were investigated. These seeds are available in the market as bird feed, supplied by companies in various countries as healthy and nutritious food for domestic birds. A total of 81 fungal species were isolated. The genusAspergillus was predominant with 23 species, followed byPenicillium with 18,Ulocladium with 7,Alternaria with 6 andChaetomium, Curvularia andDrechslera with 5 species each. Other genera isolated wereAureobasidium, Cladosporium, Fusarium, Mucor, Rhizopus andSyncephalastrum.
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Hashem, A.R. Seed-borne fungi in domestic bird feed in Saudi Arabia. Mycoscience 37, 223–226 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02461348
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