Identification of fungi which damage tobacco during cure and storage in Tucumdan (Argentina), II

Abstract

This paper has been carried out in order to investigate the fungal microorganisms that attack shed and stored tobacco and to determine their isolating frecuency from shed (shed-curing) in different tobacco crop (Nicotiana tabacum L. var. ?Burley?) areas in Tucumén during the sampling periods. The microorganisms identified were the following: Aspergillus spp.; Scopulariopsis sp.; Alternaria sp.; Fusarium spp.; Cladosporium sp.; Nigrospora sp.; Penicillium spp.; Chaetomium sp.; Sphaeropsis sp.; Trichoderma sp.; Rhizopus sp.; Botryosporium sp. and Streptomyces sp.; with the most frequently sampling periods during 1988/89, 1989/90 and 1990/91, the following: Aspergillus spp.; Penicillium spp. and Alternaria sp.