Identification of pathogen:
- Affects garlic and leek
- Attacks only diseased, injured bulbs and aging tissue
- Damage by weakening the seed stalks when they are almost ripe causing them to break over
- Spoil the appearance of the bulb with a sooty mould before they are marketed
- Producing short clavate to cylindrical asci in brown pseudothecia
- Ascospores yellow to yellowish brown, oval to ellipsoid, 26-50 x 10-20 um with 1-5 vertical and 7 transverse septa
- Harvest without causing any bruises
- Bulbs should be dried properly before storage
