Study of Seed Mycoflora in Different Samples of Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench

Health status of okra seed samples collected from six different location (Raipur, Kawardha, Bilaspur, Ambikapur, Jashpur and Dhamtari) of Chhattisgarh was studied. By incubation methods (standard blotter, agar plate and 2, 4-D), in total 14 mycoflora (Alternaria sp., Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus niger, Chaetomium sp., Colletotrichum sp., Curvularia sp., Fusarium sp., Memnoniella sp., Nigrospora sp., Penicillium sp., Rhizopus sp., Sterile mycelium, Trichoderma sp.) were detected with varying frequencies in different samples and methods. Frequency of mycoflora was highest 2.49 % in Bilaspur sample followed by 2.24 % in Raipur, 2.16 % in Ambikapur, 2.08 % in jashpur, 2.00 % in Kawardha and lowest mean frequency was 0.83 % in Dhamtari sample. In overall mycoflora detected by three incubation methods average frequency was highest of Fusarium sp.(22.94 %) followed by Alternaria sp.(18.49 %), Aspergillus flavus (18.38 %), Nigrospora sp. (5.99 %), Curvularia sp. (4.60 %), Trichoderma sp. (2.58 %), Sterile mycelium (2.55 %), Aspergillus fumigates (2.44 %), Aspergillus niger (2.05 %), Rhizopus sp. (1.93 %), Chaetomium sp. (1.87 %), Memnoniella sp. (1.55 %), Colletotrichum sp.(1.44 %) and lowest frequency was Penicillium sp. (1.33 %)