Identification Symptoms

  • Initially, disease appears as minute water soaked round, yellow spots which enlarge slightly and turn brown, eruptive and corky.
  • These pustules are surrounded by a characteristic yellow halo.
  • Canker lesions on the fruit do not possess the yellow halo as on leaves. Several lesions on fruit may coalesce to form larger canker.
  • Due to severe infections the there may be defoliation, and twig and stem may show die-back symptoms.