Antagonistic interactions among seedborne microflora and dynamics of microbial incidence

Abstract

Seed treatment of Phaseolus mungo Roxb. with non-volatile metabolites of dominant seed fungi such as Chaetomium indicum Corda and Curvularia lunata (Walker) Boedijn and the antibiotic substances: chetomin, curvularin and brefeldin reduced the percent incidence of microfungi and bacteria but induced the Streptomyces sp. The antagonistic behaviour of seed microflora was assessed in vitro. © 1979 Springer-Verlag.