date:Dec 11, 2020
Banana fruits infected with rot disease were collected from the local market of Lahore, Pakistan. The observed symptoms were dry, decayed, sunken lesions with dark grey to greenish in color, damaging quality of the fruit. Scientists at University of the Punjab (Lahore, Pakistan) have isolated the pathogen from infected tissues.
Morphological identification showed that the young fungal colony was greenish grey in color which upon maturation turned into downy dark grey to black. The conidia were