STUDIES ON SEASONAL VARIATION IN SUGARCANE SOIL MYCOBIOTA AT DIFFERENT LOCALITY OF JALNA DISTRICT

Abstract

During The survey soil samples were collected at different seasons from four major sugarcane growing localities of Jalna district viz. Badnapur, Ambad, Jalna, Partur. The present study reveals the occurrence of total twenty nine species in which, among them four species belonging to zygomycetes (Rhizopus stolonifer, Rhizopus nigricans, Mucor sp., and Absidia sp.), two species belonging basidiomycetes (Rhizoctoni sp. and Sclerotium rolfsii) and twenty three species belonging to Deuteromycetes viz. Alternaria humicola, Alternaria alternata, Aspergillus niger, A. flavus, A. oryzae, Aspergillus terreus, Aspergillus nidulans, Aspergillus ustus, Cladosporium herbarum, Cercospora sp., Colletotrichum falcatum, Curvularia lunata, Drechslera sp, Fusarium oxysporum, F. moniliforme, F. semitectum, F. dimerum, F.sacchari, Macrophomina phaseolina, Penicillium chrysogenum, P.citrinum, Trichoderma harzianum, and Trichoderma koningii.