Disease on crop
fungalBrown Rot on japanese plum
Monilinia fructicola
The most damaging stone-fruit and almond disease, causing blossom blight and fruit rot.
- Disease
- Brown Rot
- Pathogen type
- Fungal
- Crop
- Japanese Plum
- Scientific name
- Monilinia fructicola
Brown Rot on japanese plum
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Symptoms on japanese plum
- ▸ Brown spreading lesions on fruit
- ▸ Fuzzy gray-brown spore masses
- ▸ Blossom blight in spring
- ▸ Mummified fruit hanging through winter
IPM controls
- ✓ Sanitation (remove all mummies and fallen fruit)
- ✓ Fungicide at bloom and pre-harvest
- ✓ Pruning for airflow
- ✓ Avoid wet harvest
- ✓ Resistant varieties where available
Resistant varieties
Harcot apricot Contender peach
Other crops affected by brown rot
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