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Importance of Seed Transmission in The Spread of Cylindrocladium crotalariae¹

Authors: D. Morris Porter , R. Walton Mozingo

  • Importance of Seed Transmission in The Spread of Cylindrocladium crotalariae¹

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    Importance of Seed Transmission in The Spread of Cylindrocladium crotalariae¹

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Abstract

Cylindrocladium crotalariae, which causes Cylindrocladium black rot (CBR) of peanut (Arachis hypogaea), can be isolated at a low frequency from nondamaged peanut seed (seed size 6.4 ≥ 25.4 mm slotted screen) not treated with a seed protectant fungicide. Peanut seed obtained from peanut fields in Suffolk, VA, and Martin County, NC, where CBR was severe in 1985 were infected at a frequency of 1.5% and 1.4%, respectively. Cylindrocladium crotalariae was isolated at twice the frequency from pieces of seed than from whole seed. However, C. crotalariae was not isolated from seed treated for 2 weeks with a seed protectant (DCNA + captan). The fungus was not isolated from seed devoid of testae or seed embryos, but was isolated from seed testae at a frequency of 0.4%. Discolored seed (≥6.4 × 25.4 mm) were infected at a frequency of 7.9%, but following seed treatment, the isolation frequency dropped to zero. Discolored seed measuring <6.4 × 25.4 mm were infected with C. crotalariae at a frequency often exceeding 10%.

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Keywords: peanut, seed contaminant, Arachis hypogaea, seed protectant

How to Cite:

Porter, D. & Mozingo, R., (1986) “Importance of Seed Transmission in The Spread of Cylindrocladium crotalariae¹”, Peanut Science 13(2), p.80-82. doi: https://doi.org/10.3146/i0095-3679-13-2-10

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Published on
01 Jul 1986
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Author Notes

1Cooperative investigation by Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Suffolk, VA 23437, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 240461.

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