Identification Symptoms

  • Fruit rot of litchi has been a serious problem. Litchi is host to a range of post-harvest pathogens, often with quite different modes of infection.
  • Several fungi have been found to be associated with diseases
  • Usually large water soaked lesions appear on the surface of fruits.
  • Initially the disease symptoms are perceptible on injured portion of the fruits.
  • With the advance of the disease the decayed areas get depressed.
  • The rot gradually penetrates deep into the pulp.
  • Ultimately rind of infected fruits cracks off exposing the pulp which subsequently is covered with thick Cottony mycelium.
  • Such affected fruits emit an odour of fermentation.