total fungal colonies

Treatments	Total Fungal Colonies per Plate
Treatments	Agar plate	Blotter Test
MW1	15.0^d	1.4^d
MW2	17.0^c	6.2^a
BH660W1	11.2^e	3.8b^c
BH660W2	9.6^f	3.8^b
FPSW1	23.4^b	2.6^c
FPSW2	27.6^a	3.6^b
Mean	17.3	3.45
LSD (0.05)	1.27	0.67
CV (%)	2.3	5.3
MW1Melko with surface disinfecting; MW2=Melko without surface disinfecting; BH660W1=BH660 variety with surface disinfecting; BH660W2=BH660 variety without surface disinfecting; FPSW1=Farmer preserved seed with surface disinfecting; FPSW2=Farmer preserved seed without surface disinfecting; LSD=Least Significant Difference; CV=Coefficient of Variation; Values following by the same letter within the column or row are not significantly different at 0.05 probability level.

Table 1: The total fungal colonies per plate of three maize variety kernels with and without surface disinfecting at agar plate test and blotter test methods.