Horticultural crops :: Vegetables:: Radish
| Alternaria Blight: Alternaria raphani
Symptoms
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The pathogen affects leaves, stem, pods and seeds.
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Symptoms of the disease first appear on the leaves of seed stem in the form of small, yellowish, slightly raised lesions.
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Lesions appear later on the stems and seed pods.
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Infection spreads rapidly during rainy weather, and the entire pod may be so infected that the styler end becomes black and shrivelled.
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The fungus penetrates in pod tissues, ultimately infecting the seeds. The infected seed fails to germinate.
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