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The Relationship Between Black Point And Fungi Species And Effects Of Black Point On Seed Germination Properties In Bread Wheat, Faruk Toklu, Davut Soner Akgül, Mehmet Bi̇çi̇ci̇, Tolga Karaköy

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

This study was undertaken to investigate the relationship between some fungi species and black point incidence and the effect of black point on seed weight, germination percentage, seedling emergence, seedling establishment, number of embryonic roots, and coleoptile length under field conditions in bread wheat. In this research, black-pointed and black point-free kernel samples of 5 bread wheat cultivars, namely Ceyhan-99, Doğankent-1, Yüreğir-89, Seyhan-95, and Adana-99 - commonly grown under the agroclimatic conditions of Çukurova Region, were used. Isolations from the black point-affected and black point-free kernels indicated that Alternaria spp. are the predominant fungi, followed by Chaetomium sp and Aspergillus …