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