Survey and patho-physiological studies of fruit rot diseases.
Manoharachary C., Rao P. R.
Author Affiliation: Mycology and Plant Pathology Lab., Department of Botany, Osmania University, Hyderabad 500?007, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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Abstract : Post-harvest diseases of fruit (bananas, Ziziphus mauritiana, cherries, figs, grapes, guavas, Artocarpus integrifolius, Syzygium cumini, Litchi chinensis, mangoes, oranges, plums and Achras sapota) recorded in Andhra Pradesh during 1979-85 are tabulated giving host, pathogen and nature of infection. Biochemical and enzymatic changes in infected fruit, effects of temperature and relative humidity and nutrition of fruit rot pathogens are considered.