Author(s):

Lalesh Kumari

Abstract: Tomato Lycopersicon esculantum L. is the most popular vegetables world wide .Tomato crop and yield is suffered every year due to number of pathogenic disease .Such disease are caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses and nematode .Fruit -rot of tomato is an economically important disease which affects production of tomato. During survey of vegetable market in Muzaffarnagar district, it was observed that most of the tomato fruits have been suffered by fruit-rot disease caused by Alternaria solani (Ellis and mart.) Jones and Grout. The fruit-rot was encountered in all the months during which survey was done Nov 2016 to Oct 2017, but the incidence was maximum during April (9.75) and minimum in January (5.00).

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