Identification Symptoms

  • Damping off of tomato occurs in two stages, i.e. the pre-emergence and the post-emergence phase.
  • In the pre-emergence the phase the seedlings are killed just before they reach the soil surface.
  • The young radical and the plumule are killed and there is complete rotting of the seedlings.
  • The post-emergence phase is characterized by the infection of the young, juvenile tissues of the collar at the ground level.
  • The infected tissues become soft and water soaked. The seedlings topple over or collapse.