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Bacterial diseases (fruit) Acetic souring Acetic acid bacteria: Bacterial fruitlet brown rot Erwinia ananas pv. ananas: Fruit collapse Erwinia chrysanthemi: Marbled fruit Acetobacter spp. A. peroxydans Erwinia herbicola var. ananas. Pink fruit Acetobacter aceti. Erwinia herbicola Gluconobacter oxydans. Soft rot Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora
Pineapple black rot is the most common and well-known post-harvest disease of the pineapple fruit and is responsible for serious losses in the fresh pineapple fruit world industry. The pathogen is a polyphagous wound parasite and gains entry into the fruit via wounds sustained during and after harvest. [ 2 ]
One of the most well-known diseases caused by Ceratocystis paradoxa is Black rot or stem-end rot of pineapple, but it can also infect tropical fruit plants such as banana and coconuts as well as sugarcane. The pathogen infects the fruits through wounds or other openings after harvest has already happened and the fruit is fresh. [2]
Fruitlet core rot (FCR) is the disease of a pineapple fruit, from the pathogen Penicillium funiculosum that is brown or black in color and rotted in the center. [2] FCR is associated with multiple pathogens, such as Candida guilliermondi in addition to P. funiculosum, however, leathery pocket (LP) and interfruitlet corking (IFC) are only associated with P. funiculosum. [2]
One species, the pineapple fruit fly Melanoloma viatrix, has been reported as a pest of pineapples. [1] Most adults have some general features, conspicuously pictured wings, often with metallic blue or greenish colors on the body and legs, and a typical tephritoid ovipositor .
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