The objective of this work was to investigate the effects of the physiological pre-conditioning of carrot seeds cv. hybrid "Carol" with 1.25% and 2.0% incidence of Alternaria dauci and A. radicina in two osmotically aerated solutions, one of PEG 6000 and another with KNO3, with the addition of thiram on the physiological quality and the development of the mycoflora associated. The essays consisted of pre-conditioning carrot seeds, in an integrated system composed by mechanisms of filtering, pumping and moistening the air for the aeration of both solutions at an osmotic potential of - 1.1MPa at 25ºC for seven days. After pre-conditioning, the seeds were washed, air dried for 48 hours and submitted to blotter test with quantification of inoculum, germination, first count, emergence speed index of seedlings, stand at 14 days and weight of dry matter of seedlings. The physiological pre-conditioning of carrot seeds in the osmotic solutions provided conditions for the increase of the incidence and inoculum density of both Alternaria species. In the osmotic solutions with additions of thiram at the concentrations of 1% and 1.5%, was able to eliminate those fungi associated to the seeds submitted to the pre-conditioning. In some tests (emergence speed index and weight of dry matter seedlings) the physiological pre-conditioning with the addition of thiram for both solutes provided conditions for improving the physiological quality of the seeds.
Physiological pre-conditioning; priming; polyethylene glicol 6000; potassium nitrate; fungicide; fungi; seed
