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Cercospora fruit /leaf spot

Cercospora fruit /leaf spot

Fruit: Pomegranate
Disease: Fungal
Pathogen: Cercospora punicae

On leaves the spots are irregular reddish brown spots of various sizes with yellow halo spots , which may be few to numerous. These are non slimy spots. Minute, circular, black spots appear on sepals of the flower. Fruit spots on lower side are sunken with clusters of spore bearing structures hence greyish in colour.Fruit spots are black, minute and circular on rind. On fruit, the spots resemble bacterial blight lesions but are darker black, discrete, of various sizes without cracks and no stickiness.When grow old, become large, irregularly circular and depressed presenting an ugly look to the fruits.

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