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
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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 |