Identification Symptoms

  • Symptoms occur generally on green fruits and rarely on leaves.
  • Initially minute, brown or rust coloured, unbroken, circular, necrotic areas appears on fruits, which in advanced stage of infection; tears open the epidermis in a circinate manner.
  • The margin of lesion is elevated and a depressed area is noticeable inside. The crater like appearance is more noticeable on fruits than on leaves. In older cankers, white myceliums consisting of numerous spores are noticeable.
  • In severe cases, raised, cankerous spots develop in great numbers and the fruits break open to expose seeds
  • Infected fruits remain underdeveloped, become hard, malformed and mummified and drop. Sometimes, small rusty brown angular spots appear on the leaves.