Identification Symptoms
- The skin of the fruit turns
black and shrivels and becomes covered with characteristic pink acervuli.
Finally the whole finger is affected. Later the disease spreads and affects
the whole bunch.
- The disease results in
premature ripening and shriveling of the fruits which are covered with
pink spore masses.
- Occurrence if black lesions on
the pedicel causes withering of the pedicel and dropping of the fingers
from the hands
- Sometimes the main stalk of the
bunch may become diseased. Infected fruits become black and rotten