ABSTRACT

A preliminary survey of seed mycoflora was undertaken at four locations during the years 2018-2019. Seeds are used as medicine. These seeds are found to be frequently contaminated by fungi (Roy et al. 1988, Mamatha et al., 2000). Chaurasia (1990) investigated that almost all medicinal seed samples were associated with a large number of fungi. Some of these had heavy contamination of toxigenic Aspergillusflavus strains. The drug manufacturers without examining the raw drug samples from microbial association manufacture the finished herbal drugs. Therefore, it is essential to pay adequate attention to the effect of weather on medicinal seed mycoflora. The storage methodology of seeds is found to be different at various places such as market, godowns, laboratories etc. They may be stored in gunny bags, tin box, glass bottles etc. Keywords: Seed mycoflora, medicinal seeds
Publication date: 15/01/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.1.1067