Question

Anthracnose (fruit rot) of chilli, a post-harvest as well as field disease that produces sunken, circular, dark lesions on ripening fruits, often with concentric rings of dark fungal fruiting bodies visible within the lesion, is commonly caused by species of which fungal genus?

Q: Answer-Anthracnose (fruit rot) of chilli, a post-harvest as well as field disease that produces sunken, cir...

Anthracnose fruit rot of chilli is commonly caused by species of the fungal genus Colletotrichum, which produce characteristic sunken, circular, dark lesions on ripening fruits, often with concentric rings of dark fungal fruiting bodies acervuli visible within the lesion, developing both in the field and during post-harvest storage.