Aspergillus flavus Sclerotia Form in Wound-Inoculated Preharvest Corn
- 1 May 1984
- Vol. 76 (3) , 503-505
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3793332
Abstract
A. flavus formed large numbers of sclerotia in wound-inoculated preharvest corn. The majority of the sclerotia recovered from individual ears were found on the wounded kernels; intact kernels located adjacent to the wound-inoculated kernels were infected with A. flavus but supported for sclerotia, and these formed exclusively on the pericarp surface. More sclerotia were produced per gram of wounded kernel tissue from a loose-husked northern hybrid than from a tight-husked southern hybrid. Sclerotia may represent an important source of inoculum in fields continuously cropped to corn.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: