Seed health testing to detect seed mycoflora and other parameters like germination status, physical purity, moisture, seedling length and seed vigour index are very important component of management of crop diseases. The legume seeds particularly black gram seeds were screened against these parameters using blotter plate method from untreated seeds as per the International rules for seed testing in the laboratory of Seed Science and Technology and Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture, Bhawanipatna. | Seed health status of farmers’ saved black gram (Vigna mungo (L.) Heppper) seeds in western undulated zones of Odisha
