Study of microflora associated with pulses and their sprouts from different food marts

Abstract

Pulses are the edible seeds of the plants in the legume family. Growing pulses Also promotes sustainable agriculture, as pulse crops help decrease greenhouse gases, increase soil health, and use less water than other crops. Pulses are the dried seeds of the legume plants. An experiment was conducted to see the Microflora of raw Pulses and their sprouts collected from different Food Marts, at Department of Agricultural Microbiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, G. K. V. K., Bengaluru during the year 2009-2011. In this study, Enumeration of microflora associated with damaged horse gram and green gram samples collected from different places, showed that the Sample-two and three were statistically non-significant with reference to bacterial population. But, both of them were significantly differing from sample-one. Sample-two and three were statistically non-significant with reference to fungal population. Both of them significantly differed from sample-one.