Methods of artificial inoculation of sunflower by fungi of Fusarium species

«OIL CROPS» Scientific bulletin, VNIIMK, 2006, is 2 (135). Methods of artificial inoculation of sunflower by some species of Fusarium developed in an O.P.V. sunflower breeding department of VNIIMK are described. Offered methods provide effective inoculation of sunflower plants by Fusarium in fields at a various environmental factors. These methods allow selecting a breeding material, resistant to root and head forms of Fusarium.