Symptoms

• It attacks the leaves, flowers, stalks of panicle and fruits.
• Shedding of infected leaves occurs when the disease is severe.  
• The affected fruits do not grow in size and may drop before attaining pea size.
• Survives as dormant mycelium in affected leaves.
• Secondary spread by air borne conidia

Powdery mildew infection on flowers		Advanced stage

Management

• Dusting the plants with fine sulphur (250-300 mesh) at the rate of 0.5 kg/tree.
• The first application may be soon after flowering, second 15 days later    (or) spray with Wettable sulphur (0.2%), (or) Carbendazim (0.1%),(or) Tridemorph ( 0.1%),(or) Karathane (0.1%).