Identification Symptoms

  • Disease appears as spots on leaves, stems and fruits and as wilting of leaves and shoots
  • White blister like spots in the margins of leaves
  • Spots become brown with age and coalesce, but leaves do not fall off
  • Leaflets on one side of rachis show withering initially
  • Light coloured streaks on stems and petioles at the joints
  • Cracks develop in streaks and form cankers
  • Slimy bacterial ooze through the cracks in humid weather
  • Small, shallow, water soaked, spots with white halo develop on fruits
  • The centers of spots become slightly raised, tan colour