Brown Rot
Monilinia fructicola
fungal disease.
The most damaging stone-fruit disease, causing blossom blight and fruit rot.
Biology and conditions
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Symptoms
- Brown spreading lesions on fruit
- Fuzzy gray-brown spore masses
- Blossom blight in spring
- Mummified fruit hanging through winter
Controls
- Sanitation (remove all mummies and fallen fruit)
- Fungicide at bloom and pre-harvest
- Pruning for airflow
- Avoid wet harvest
- Resistant varieties where available
Resistant varieties
- Harcot apricot
- Contender peach