Abstract
Dilution plating of washed lemmas, paleas and caryopses, and washings, indicated that in naked barley 40 % of the filamentous fungi present on or in the whole kernel were associated with the lemma, 27% with the palea and 33% with the caryopsis. The distribution of yeasts was similar, but 95% of bacteria were associated with the lemma. In wheat, 48 % of filamentous fungi were isolated from the lemma, 40 % from the palea, but only 12 % from the caryopsis. Proportionally more yeasts were isolated from the lemma, but only 3% from the caryopsis. Large numbers of bacteria were isolated from all three components of the wheat kernel. In both naked barley and wheat, only a small proportion of the inoculum appeared to be established within the components, less than 10% of that being in the caryopsis. Cladosporium spp. were the commonest filamentous fungi on and in kernels.
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