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Post Harvest Diseases :: Fruits :: Apple
Green mould rot: Penicillium italicum
Symptoms:
  • It occurs on fruits during storage and transit.
  • Affected of the fruits become watery.
  • Watery spot increases and then entire fruit rots and emits bad smell
  • Green fungal growth is seen on the surface of the fruits
  • Spores of the pathogen are air-borne
  • It entry through the stylar-end or lenticels was selective and in frequent
Internal watery tissue Increased watery spots

Management:

  • Benomyl, Thiophanate-methyl 
  • 2% bleaching powder – 5 minutes and 0.2% flit 406 – 10 minutes
  • storage at 2-40C.
  • TBZ – 0.1% incorporated in waxol-0-12 – under refrigeration (Subramanian et al., 1973)
  • Prestorage dip in TBZ (500ppm) for 2-3 minutes.
  • Boric acid at 4% and Imazil

Image source: http://archive.bio.ed.ac.uk/jdeacon/microbes/applerot.htm


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