Quantification of conidia produced by Pyrenophora chaetomioides on dead leaves of Avena sativa under field condition

Efforts were made to quantify the production of Pyrenophora chaetomioides conidia on basal, dead oat leaves and to correlate it with temperature and precipitation during the crop season. At regular intervals of time samples of dead leaves were harvested from the surface of the plots, and the conidia were counted in the laboratory. The results showed that conidia decreased as the sowing date was delayed and that spore production was higher on the early variety than on the later ones. There was an association between the accumulated precipitation in the previous period of the harvested sample and the conidia produced.