Browsing by Author "Aliyu, Muhammad Kabir"

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    Effects of fungal filtrates relative to soaking periods on seed germination of maize (Zea mays L.Poaceae)
    (Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Bayero University, Kano., 2013) Garuba, Taofeeq; Aare, Isaac O.; Abdulrahaman, Abdullahi. A.; Aliyu, Muhammad Kabir; Amadi, Jude E
    This work was carried out to investigate the effects of fungal filtrates on the seed germination and seedling growth of maize ( Zea mays var. Obasuper). The filtrate of Aspergillus niger, Penicillium chrysogenum, Rhizopus stolonifer and Fusarium oxysporum were produced. The seeds were soaked in each filtrate for different periods. The results showed that 4-day-old filtrate of Aspergillus niger inhibited the germination of seeds (82.5%) at 2 hours pre- soaking period which was significantly different from the effects of other fungal filtrates. The plumule length of seeds soaked in 8-day-old culture of P. Chrysogenum (1.00cm) was higher than the value obtained from seeds treated with Fusarium oxysporum filtrate (0.99cm) but showed no significant difference at significant level of 0.05.