Final diagnosis


Anthracnosis (Colletotrichum and Gloeosporium spp.)

A few discreet small chlorotic lesions with a necrotic center dot several leaves of this eggplant plant. <i>Colletotrichum</i> sp. (anthracnose)
A few discreet small chlorotic lesions with a necrotic center dot several leaves of this eggplant plant. <i>Colletotrichum</i> sp. (anthracnose)
Small lesions, brownish necrotic spots are scattered on this eggplant leaf. They all have a more or less marked yellow halo. <i>Colletotrichum</i> sp. (anthracnose)
Detail of some anthracnose spots on the upper side of the blade of an eggplant leaf. <i>Colletotrichum</i> sp.
Detail of some anthracnose spots on the underside of the blade of an eggplant leaf. <i>Colletotrichum</i> sp.
Numerous small rather circular lesions of a few anthracnose spots on the upper side of the blade of an eggplant leaf. <i>Colletotrichum</i> sp.
On this eggplant, the brown to blackish lesions are already more extensive. Circular to irregular, some confluent in places <i>Colletotrichum</i> sp. (anthracnose)
Detail of a large anthracnose lesion on eggplant fruit. Note the presence of tiny, concentrically distributed salmon mucous clumps. <i>Colletotrichum</i> sp.
Large areas of this fruit are rotten. The altered tissues have gradually superficially collapsed, and are more or less wrinkled. <i>Colletotrichum</i> sp. (anthracnosis)
Fully rotten eggplant fruit. <i>Colletotrichum</i> sp. (anthracnose)
Detail of tiny structures produced by a <i>Colletotrichum</i> sp. beginning to form on fruit lesions. (anthracnosis)
Detail of tiny structures produced by a <i>Colletotrichum</i> sp. well developed on fruit lesions. (anthracnose)