Symptomatology and pathology of strawberry diseases causing leaf blight and fruit rot in punjab

The present investigations were carried out in the Plant Pathology Laboratory of Department of Fruit Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana from 2014 to 2016. The anthracnose disease produce brown to pin head black necrotic lesions on tip and margin of leaves, brown to tan sunken circular spots with minute stroma in centre of lesion on green fruits and dark brown to black water soaked lesion causing browning and rotting of ripe fruit The Rhizopus rot infection start on ripe fruit with secretion of red juice from fruit tissue which later covered with white fuzzy mycelium.