• Sunken lesions on fruits vary in size
• Upto 1.3cm wide and may coalesce
• Tan colored ooze of fungal spores appear on lesions
• Fruit dries & become black – fruit drop

• Mycelium - septate, branched & light pink to brown
• Acervuli - simple globose and dark brown
• Conidiophore - erect and hyaline
• Conidia - hyaline, one celled, oval or oblong

• Survives on crop debris as acervuli
• Spores dispersed by rain splash

Epidemiology

• RH - 100%
• Temp - 21 to 29 ° C

• Field sanitation - destruction of infected plant debris
• Other host plant - S. torvum
• Harvesting of fruits before they over ripe
• Zineb or ferbam spray at 10 days interval