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Crop Protection — Garlic Phdiseases 4

  • Whole tissue become black powdery mass
  • Individual bulbs shrivel and become light in weight
  • Under high humid condition the inner tissues become moderately soft
  • Infected bulbs lose their pungency and smell
  • Rotten garlic cloves show black, brown, pink or white coloured rotting
  • Mycelium - branched, septate thick walled foot cells differentiate and give rise to a single conidiophore Conidiophore - globose on which brown sterigmata are formed
  • Vesicle, sterigmata, conidia make up the black head - characteristic of the fungus
  • Rapid and thorough curing
  • Storage - good ventilation
  • Temp - just above 0 ° C
Black powdery massShrivelled rottten bulb