SEED BORNE FUNGI ASSOCIATED WITH FOUR SELECTED INBREED RICE VARIETIES OF BANGLADESH AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON SEED HEALTH AND SEEDLING VIGOR

Abstract

An experiment was conducted in the Seed Health Laboratory, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University; Dhaka during the period of July 2013 to June 2014 to find out the effect of seed borne fungi of four selected inbreed rice varieties namely BRRI Dhan28, BRRI Dhan55, BINA Dhan8 and NERICA 10. The experiment was carried out in Completely Randomized Design blotter method. Among the varieties tested, the highest number of abnormal seedlings.