Anthracnose (Collectotrichum sp)

Symptoms

• Small, water soaked, sunken lesions appear on mature fruits that rapidly expand
• Fully expanded lesions are sunken and range from dark red to light tan
• Later these lesion coalescence to form leaf blight.
• Black spots develops on fruit and later rotting of fruits occurs

Management

• Use disease free seeds
• Hot water treatment of seeds at 52 degree Celsius for 30 minutes
• Crop rotation with non-host crops
• Avoid overhead irrigation to reduce periods of wetness on chilly fruit
• Remove and destroy infected plant debris