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Postharvest Diseases :: Fruits :: Grapes
Blue mould rot: Penicillium digitatum

Symptoms

  • Scanty growth - white  and turn bluish green are seen.
  • Decay the berries
  • Infected tissues become soft and watery
  • Infected berries emits a moudly flavour
White scanty growth Bluish green scanty growth Decayed berries

Management:

  • Avoiding injuries to the ripe berries helps to reduce soft rot.
  • Clean planting stock; (ii) Disease wood removal and immediate burning; (iii) fungicide application at shoot extension and later if temperatures are cool. Sulphur is said to reduce new infections in the early Spring

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