Bitter rot: Glomerella cingulata
Symptoms:
- Small, brown, circular spots present
- Later become sunken, forming a saucer-shaped depression.
- Wet weather conditions, pink fruiting bodies of the fungus develop in the center of the rotten area.
- Rot penetrates deeply into the flesh.
- 68°F favors the development of disease.
Management:
- Spray Mancozeb 0.25 % in field.
- Treatment with Mancozeb 0.25 % to check the disease in storage.
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