Diseases of Fruit Plantation Medicinal and Aromatic Crops

Bitter rot

Causal Organism : Greenaria fuliginea Scribner & Viala.
Ripe and unripe berries just near the peduncle are affected. It causes light brown to dark, fuliginous full of dense acervuli.
Brown, hard depressed patches on the berries which subsequently bear numerous black, dot- like fructifications.
Grapes harvested with small lesions develop typical rot symptoms which deteriorate in transit and storage.