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A Review of Sorghum Grain Mold

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Title A Review of Sorghum Grain Mold
 
Creator Forbes, G
Bandyopadhyay, R
Garcia, G
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Terminology and definitions, symptoms, causal agents, importance, and control of fungal-related
grain deterioration of sorghum are reviewed. The term grain mold (GM) has gained general
acceptance as the most satisfactory descriptor of this condition.
Two concepts of fungal-related grain deterioration may be found in literature. In one, GM is a
condition caused by parasitic and/or saprophytic interactions of numerous fungal spp and the
plant at anytime between anthesis and harvest. In the other, only a few fungi infecting and
colonizing spikelet tissues prior to grain maturity are involved. Fungi involved in postharvest
deterioration (weathering) are not considered part of the GM complex. Numerous forms of GM
damage have been described, but little work is reported on quantification of losses. A potential
mycotoxin contamination in molded grain samples has been demonstrated.
New techniques, including serial dilutions and ergosterol concentration, have been useful in
evaluating GM severity. Screening of more than 7000 accessions has identified more than 150 GMresistant
lines
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 1992
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4701/1/A_Review_253-264_1992.pdf
Forbes, G and Bandyopadhyay, R and Garcia, G (1992) A Review of Sorghum Grain Mold. In: Sorghum and millets diseases: a second world review. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics , Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, pp. 265-272. ISBN 92-9666-201-8