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Storage Fungi and Fatty Acids in Seeds Held Thirty Days at Moisture Contents of Fourteen and Sixteen Per Cent. D. C. McGee, Former Research Associate, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55101; C. M. Christensen, Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55101. Phytopathology 60:1775-1777. Accepted for publication 14 July 1970. DOI: 10.1094/Phyto-60-1775.

In seeds of rice, barley, wheat, corn, soybeans, and sunflowers, neither individual major fatty acids nor total fat acidity increased with increasing invasion by storage fungi until invasion had become obvious. The relative amounts of different major fatty acids varied with kind of seed, but the relative proportion of the total contributed by the different fatty acids remained constant. It seems unlikely that analyses for either individual or total fatty acids would aid in detecting early invasion by storage fungi, or in evaluating storability.