Through incubation of 13 pea (Pisum sativum L. "Titan") samples from the lo
cal markets of Khartoum on potato dextrose agar (PDA) and moistened filter
papers (Moist Chambers) at 28 +/- 2 degrees C, 22 genera, 56 species and 9
varieties were encountered as seed-borne fungi of pea crops. Of these fungi
, 45 species and 9 varieties are new records to this crop, where two genera
, three species and two varieties are new reports to the mycoflora of the S
udan. The genus Aspergillus (11 species and 5 varieties) was the most commo
n followed by Rhizopus (2 species), Alternaria (7 species), Fusarium (7 spe
cies), Emericella (2 species and 3 varieties), Drechslera (2 species), Clad
osporium (4 species) and Penicillium (5 species), where the remaining 14 ge
nera (1-3 species) exhibited very low levels of infection. As possible path
ogens of pea plants, A. alternata (2.07%), A. flavus var. columnaris (3.75%
), A. flavus var. flavus (3.70%), C. cladosporioides(1.88%), D. australiens
is (2.46%), F. oxysporum (1.58%), F. solani(1.88%) and Pythium ultimum (1.5
0%) were recovered from pea seeds. Thin layer chromatographic analysis of c
hloroform extracts of 13 seed samples revealed that three samples were natu
rally contaminated with aflatoxins B-1, B-2, G(1) and G(2) (18-30 mu g/kg).