Diseases:

Diseases	Pictorial Signs / Symptoms	Trade Name	Dosage	Pre-Harvest Interval(Days)
Fusarium wilt Fusarium oxysporium Causes wilting and death of plant. The vascular tissues show brown discoloration.		Use of yellow rootstock,
		Grafting height greater than 45 cm,
		Sterile potting media


Blight Phytophthora nicotianae.		Field hygiene
Appear as dark water soaked lesions on leaves. These later spread as infected tissues die. Young shoots also can be infected.
		Polyram	150g/1001	14 days

		Daconil	50g/201	7 days
Brown spot Alternaria passiflora		Thinning vines to promote air flow.
Attack leaves and fruits causing brown rings with dead spots .infection on leaves can extend to leaf axils and terms.
		Effective fungicides eg
		Daconil/milraz,


		Antracol	50g/20L	7 days

		Ridomil
			50g/20L	14 days

			50g/20L	14 days
Woodiness virus .Is caused by a virus and symptoms include distortion of leaves and woodiness of fruits. Plants are stunted, yields are reduced and vines die.		Sterilization of pruning tools using Sodium hypochlorite (Jik) or Formaldehyde

		Vector control
		Elimination of weeds

Die back		Prune off infected branches and paste with copper based fungicides
Die backs may start at tip of branches or at the middle.
In its terminal phases, branches die back, bark and cortical dries up.

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