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Microbial Rotting of Stored Yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

N. Okafor
N. Okafor
Affiliation:
Federal Department of Agricultural Research, Moor Plantation, Ibadan, Nigeria
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Summary

The incidence of rotting among three varieties of yams (Dioscorea rotunda, D. alata and D. cayenensis), stored in a yam barn at Ibadan for about four months, was between 0·6 and 68·5 per cent. The micro-organisms which caused rotting on experimental re-inoculation into yam tubers were the fungi, Botryodiplodia theobromae, Penicillium sp., Marcophomina phaseoli, Hendersonula toruloidea and a motile gram-negative orange-red pigmented bacterim, probably Serratia sp. This is the first record of the ability of M. phaseoli, and H. toruloidea to cause rotting in yam.

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Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1966 , pp. 179 - 182
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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