Symptoms
- Scanty growth - white and turn bluish green are seen.
- Decay the berries
- Infected tissues become soft and watery
- Infected berries emits a moudly flavour
Management :
- Avoiding injuries to the ripe berries helps to reduce soft rot.
- Clean planting stock; (ii) Disease wood removal and immediate burning; (iii) fungicide application at shoot extension and later if temperatures are cool. Sulphur is said to reduce new infections in the early Spring
| White scanty growth | Bluish green scanty growth | Decayed berries |