West Frontier Province in 1984 and 1987, maintained in the Plant Genetic Resources
Institute's gene bank were evaluated for seedborne fungi. Most of the accessions were
contaminated with species of 16 fungal genera. Alternaria and Helminthosporium spp.
occurred most frequently, followed by Curvularia, Fusarium and Aspergillus spp. Accessions
collected from southern Pakistan showed a higher degree of contamination than those from …