Cereal seed mycopopulations in Serbia

Abstract

Mycopopulation of cereals-durum wheat (cultivars Žitka and Durumko) triticale (cultivars Goranac and NS tritikale), winter barley (cultivars NS 131, ZA 37 and Jagodinac) and oat (cultivars Slavuj and Rajac) had been studied during three years (harvest 2002, 2003 and 2004) from numerous Serbian localities. In all three investigated years and four cereal species the predominant fungal genus were Alternaria and Fusarium. On seeds there were determinated representatives of genus Penicillium, Mucor, Bipolaris Aspergillus, Stemphylium and Epicoccum, too. The established fungi can significantly affect quality of seeds and flour products.

Keywords

• Alternaria
• cereal seeds
• Fusarium
• mycopopulations
• Serbia