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Horticultural crops :: Fruits:: Papaya
Anthracnose: Colletotrichum gloeosporioides

Symptoms

  • If affect leaf and stem on erotic spots are produced.On fruit initially brown superficial discoloration of the skin develops which are circular and slightly sunken.
  • Then they coalesce in which sparse mycelial growth appear on the margins of a spot.
  • Under humid condition salmon pink spores are released.Fruits mummified and deformed.

Infected fruit

  • Infection is caused by fruit from field.  Secondary spread by conidia by rain splashes

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