1Infestation control and protectants discipline, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, 570 013, India
Department of Studies in Applied Botany, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore, 570 006, India
Online published on 15 December, 2011.
The effect of pearl millet and sorghum diets treated with Apron 35 SD at 500 and 2000 ppm levels and untreated was tested on albino rats for 4 weeks. The consumption of treated pearl millet diet was more in males. Such difference was not observed in sorghum fed rats. Rats consumed higher quantity of stock diet compared to individual treated, untreated sorghum and pearl millet. Sorghum with fungicide at 2000 ppm level showed decrease in adrenal and increase in liver weights. Further mild to moderate multifocal necrosis, cellular infiltration and fatty infiltration was also observed at this concentration. The fungicide in pearl millet did not evoke any noticeable symptoms.
