Microbial Rotting of Stored Yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Nigeria
- 1 April 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Experimental Agriculture
- Vol. 2 (3) , 179-182
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0014479700026697
Abstract
The incidence of rotting among three varieties of yams (Dioscorea rotunda, D. alata and D. cayenensis), stored in a yam barn at Ibadan for about four months, was between 0·6 and 68·5 per cent. The micro-organisms which caused rotting on experimental re-inoculation into yam tubers were the fungi, Botryodiplodia theobromae, Penicillium sp., Marcophomina phaseoli, Hendersonula toruloidea and a motile gram-negative orange-red pigmented bacterim, probably Serratia sp. This is the first record of the ability of M. phaseoli, and H. toruloidea to cause rotting in yam.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Micro-organisms associated with Dead Insect Larvae in NigeriaNature, 1965
- The magnitude and origins of storage losses in Nigerian yamsJournal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 1961