Year: 2018, Issue: June
Study of fungal components from vegetable market.
Author:
N. S. Solanke
Keyword:
Air-borne, fungal spores, Rotorod Air Sampler, Vegetable Market.
Airspora includes much more things like fungal spores, bacteria, insect's parts, scales, pollens, hyphal fragments, mycelium etc. Many of them are problematic for human being and cause many diseases and also create environmental pollution when more in concentration. Out of these components fungal components are considered for study about their effect on vegetables and health of workers and other people in vegetable market. Rotorod sampler was used for study of biocomponents from vegetable market. Investigation was carried during July, 2016-December, 2017. Total 50 spore types were recorded from vegetable market during the investigation from which Aspergillus (15.98%) was the most frequent and predominant, Alternaria (9.13%), Cladosporium (9.03%), Rhizopus (8.27%), and Nigrospora (8.06%), spores were also inabundance. The main of this investigation was to find out concentration of air borne fungal spores and their relation with damage of vegetables from vegetable market of Hingoli region of Marathwada (M.S.).