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Brown spot: Pestalotia mangiferae

Symptoms:

  • The affected area of fruits becomes olivaceous-black and shrinks.
  • Black dots appear at the centre of the spots represent the acervuli.
  • On matured green fruits, small brown spots appear with greyish white centre which later turn to bigger lesions with large number of acervuli seen as black dots.

Epidemiology:

  • Temp. between 20 and 250 C.
  • Mycelial growth with sporulation takes place at pH 5.5 to 6.0.
  • Wounding leads to more disease incidence.

Image Source: http://www.ivorychem.com/papers/MangoBrownSpotsManagementPaper.pdf

Brown spot on leavesBlack spots on twigsBlack spots on fruits