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Food Seed Health of Chick Pea (Cicer arietinum L.) at Panchgaon, Gurgaon, India

Narendra Kumar^*

Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Haryana, Manesar, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Corresponding Author:

Narendra Kumar
Amity Institute of Biotechnology
Amity University Haryana
Manesar-122 413, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Tel: +919871288591
E-mail: narendra.microbiology@rediffmail.com

Received date: June 09, 2016; Accepted date: June 23, 2016; Published date: June 29, 2016

Citation: Kumar N (2016) Food Seed Health of Chick Pea (Cicer arietinum L.) at Panchgaon, Gurgaon, India. Adv Crop Sci Tech 4:229. doi:10.4172/2329-8863.1000229

Copyright: © 2016 Kumar N. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is a legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. It is also known as gram, or Bengal gram, garbanzo or garbanzo bean and sometimes known as Egyptian pea, ceci, cece or chana, or Kabuli chana (particularly in northern India). The 20 food seed samples of chick pea (Cicer arietinum L) were collected from farmer markets of Panchgaon (Gurgaon) Haryana. The mycobiota analysis through Std. blotter paper, Agar plate, Seed washates of food seed revealed the presence of 16 fungal species viz., Aspergillus flavus, A. fumigatus, A. niger, A. sydowi, A. ochraceous, A. terreus, A. nidulans, Cladosporium macrocarpum, F. oxysporum, F. semitectum, Macrophomina phaseolina, Penicillium notatum, Sclerotium rolfsii, Rhizoctonia solani, R. batatiocola, Rhizopus arrhizus. These species showed diversity in terms of Percent (%) frequency of fungi. In these species Aspergillus flavus, A. niger, A. ochraceous, A. terreus showed dominance in terms of Percent (%) frequency of fungi. The insect analysis revealed presence of one species of insect Callosobruchus chinensis. These species showed reduction in terms of weight loss, germination, protein content and carbohydrate content.

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