Quality of seeds of forest species
International Journal of Development Research
Quality of seeds of forest species
Received 02nd January, 2021; Received in revised form 28th January, 2021; Accepted 11th February, 2021; Published online 26th March, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Otília Ricardo de Farias et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The aim of the present study was to determine the incidence of fungi associated with the seeds of forest species. For such, we used seeds from Anadenanthera macrocarpa, Ceiba speciosa, Caesalpinia ferrea var. leiostachya, Mimosa caesalpiniifolia, Myracrodruon urundeuva, Amburana cearenses, Schinopsis brasiliensis, Erythrina verna, Aspidosperma pyrifolium, Moringa oleifera, Guazuma ulmifolia and Enterolobium contortisiliquum. Incubation on a substrate of filter paper (blotter test) was used for the identification of fungi. Twenty-four genera of fungi were associated with the seeds, the most frequent of which were Alternaria spp., Aspergillus spp., Cladosporium sp., Colletotrichum sp., Fusarium spp. and Penicillium spp.
