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  • Blossom End Rot 1

    Credit: M. Grabowski, Univ. of MN

  • Blossom End Rot 2

    Credit: M. Grabowski, Univ. of MN

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green arrowBlossom End Rot

  • The side or bottom of the eggplant turns tan and soft, then black and sunken
  • Affects only fruit
  • Secondary rot from fungi or bacteria may occur on affected fruit
  • Fruit may look short or stumpy, not fully expanded
  • Common when water levels vary from irrigation or drought followed by rain
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  • Suncald 1

    Credit: Marita Cantwell, UC Davis

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green arrowSuncald

  • Generally only a problem on fruit
  • Occurs only on tissue exposed to the sun
  • Fruit turns tan or white on exposed side, may dry out and appear wrinkled
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  • Anthracnose 1

    Credit: Dr. C. Lopes, Embrapa Hortaliças

  • Anthracnose 2

    Credit: David B. Langston, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org

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green arrowAnthracnose
Colletotrichum coccodes

  • Fruit spots are sunken and round
  • Infections are visible only on ripe and over ripe eggplant
  • Fruit spots are sunken and round
  • Rings of small black dots can be seen inside fruit spots, eventually the entire spot turns black
  • Fruit spots produce salmon pink spores with moisture
  • No visible spots on leaves and stems
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  • White Mold 1

    Credit: Photograph © by Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. and is used by permission. This photograph may not be used or reproduced without the written permission by its respective owner

  • White Mold 2

    Credit: M. Grabowski, Univ. of MN

  • White Mold 3

    Credit: Photograph © by Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. and is used by permission. This photograph may not be used or reproduced without the written permission by its respective owner

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green arrowWhite Mold
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

  • Dark, firm water soaked lesion on stem
  • Girdled stems die and turn bone white
  • Inside dead stems are black mouse poop like sclerotia
  • Fruit are soft and rotted
  • Cottony white mycelia inside and outside infected stems when humidity is high
  • Favored by cool humid conditions
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  • Phomopsis Blight 1

    Credit: David B. Langston, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org

  • Phomopsis Blight 2

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green arrowPhomopsis Blight
Phomopsis vexans

  • Stems develop dark sunken lesions just above the soil line
  • Seedlings may collapse and die
  • Leaves develop circular, gray to brown lesions with a light center
  • Severely infected leaves become torn, yellow, wilt and drop
  • Fruit develops pale, sunken, oval spots
  • Concentric rings of tiny black dots can be seen in fruit infection
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  • Phytophthora Blight 1

    Credit: David B. Langston, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org

  • Phytophthora Blight 2

    Credit: Howard F. Schwartz, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org

  • Phytophthora Blight 3

    Credit: Howard F. Schwartz, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org

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green arrowPhytophthora Blight
Phytophthora capsici and Phytophthora parasitica

  • Entire plant wilts and turns brown
  • Soft, dark, water soaked spots form on fruit
  • Water soaked to tan bleached spots may form on leaves
  • Fruit wither but remain attached and become coated in white fungal growth
  • Dark sunken spots form on stems, all leaves beyond this spot wilt
  • Disease spreads very rapidly in cool wet weather
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  • Virus 1

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  • Virus 2

    Credit: M. Grabowski, Univ. of MN

  • Virus 3

    Credit: M. Grabowski, Univ. of MN

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green arrowVirus
Cucumber mosaic virus and others

  • Leaves are mottled with yellow and light green patches
  • Leaves are misshapen; unusually long and thin like a shoestring or curled and deformed
  • Fruit have yellow blotches or brown rings
  • Plants may be stunted
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