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Screening Groundnuts for Resistance to Seed Invasion by Aspergillus flavus and to Aflatoxin Production

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Title Screening Groundnuts for Resistance to Seed Invasion by Aspergillus flavus and to Aflatoxin Production
 
Creator Mehan, V K
 
Subject Groundnut
 
Description Research on responses of groundnuts to seed colonization and infection by Aspergillus flavus and/or aflatoxin production is reviewed, and progress made in this field at ICRISAT is summarized. Several laboratory and field screening procedures are developed to screen groundnuts for resistance to A. flavus infection and/or aflatoxin production. Research on the effects of environmental factors on pod and seed invasion by A. flavus has produced information useful in the development of field screening methods. Imposed drought stress is used to improve large-scale field screening of groundnut genotypes for resistance to preharvest infection of seeds by A. flavus. Several genotypes were found resistant to infection, and some of them were also resistant to in vitro seed colonization by A. flavus in laboratory inoculation tests. Two genotypes supported only very low levels of aflatoxin B1 production when seeds were colonized by an aflatoxin-producing strain of A. flavus.
 
Date 1989
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4483/1/CP_434.pdf
Mehan, V K (1989) Screening Groundnuts for Resistance to Seed Invasion by Aspergillus flavus and to Aflatoxin Production. In: International Workshop on Aflatoxin Contamination of Groundnut, 6-9 Oct 1987, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.