• Rishabh Chitranshi
• Naveen Kumar Arora

Aspergillus flavus is one of the well-known storage fungal pathogen. It causes very harmful effect for agricultural crops. Infection spreads dangerously, especially in the oilseeds having excessive moisture and nutrients. Keeping in view of the availability of fungus and its pathogenicity, traces of dominant fungal strain RF-03 have been taken from the infected groundnut seeds. These seeds were collected form warehouse of a local farmer of district Manpuri. The isolated strain dominantly covers the petri plates and also affects the development and quality of seed. Pure culture of RF-03 was analyzed firstly through electron microscope for morphological characterization. Further, the fungal strain was identified for genus and species level and resulted as A. flavus by 18S rRNA sequencing, the obtained sequence was then submitted in NCBI under the accession number MF120213.1.

Aspergillus flavus, storage oil seeds, fungal pathogens, SEM analysis.

"Isolation and characterization of dominant pathogenic fungus Aspergillus flavus from storage seeds of groundnut ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.128-131, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904016.pdf

"Isolation and characterization of dominant pathogenic fungus Aspergillus flavus from storage seeds of groundnut ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp128-131, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904016.pdf