Diseases of fruit plantation medicinal and aromatic crops (2+1)

Tip burn

Causal organism: Myrothecium roridum
Symptoms

• In nursery, 5-6 months old plants show infection at first internode & also on tip pair of leaves.
• The symptoms observed are water soaked, brown to grey discoloration of the internodes from the tip defoliation and death as in case of die-back disease.
• On necrotic tissues cushion shaped fructifications with shiny black centre and white margins are seen.