Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the third largest crop of Pakistan and the sixth biggest exporter of rice. There are several
factors which are responsible for low yield but major cause is the infectious diseases especially these caused by seedborne pathogens which also cause losses at different stages including storage. In the current study seeds of rice
cultivars viz., Sindh Basmati, IRRI-9 and DR-83 were collected from various rice mills godowns at Karachi during
2012 and 2013. Five samples of each variety were tested for seed-borne mycoflora using Standard Blotter and Agar
plate methods with and without deep-freezing. The highest numbers i.e. 29 species of fungi were isolated from IRRI-9
as compared to 19 from Basmati and 18 from DR-83. Macrophomina phaseolina was isolated seeds of all the tested
varieties that appeared to be the first report of the fungus from seeds of these varieties in Sindh, Pakistan.
Muhammad Mujeeb Akram , Saleem Shahzad. (2019) SEED-BORNE MYCOFLORA OF RICE VARIETIES SINDH BASMATI, IRRI-9 AND DR-83 WITH FIRST REPORT OF SEED TRANSMISSION OF MACROPHOMINA PHASEOLINA IN RICE FROM SINDH, PAKISTAN , , Volume 16, Issue 2.
