Management:
- Raised blisters that develop on fruit lenticels from early to the middle of July.
- The blisters become purplish-black and range in diameter from 1to 5 mm at harvest.
- Benomyl, Thiophanate-methyl
- 2% bleaching powder – 5 minutes and 0.2% flit 406 – 10 minutes
- storage at 2-4 oC.
- TBZ – 0.1% incorporated in waxol-0-12 – under refrigeration (Subramanian et al., 1973)
- Prestorage dip in TBZ (500ppm) for 2-3 minutes.
- Boric acid at 4% and Imazil.
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