Plants are usually stunted, produce an unusual foul odor, show a soft base rot of the stem and young leaves, and drop their fruit prematurely.
They are grown mainly in Asia, Africa, North, South and Central America, the Caribbean, and Europe but also in Australia, Fiji, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.
Infection is most common when the crowns of the pineapple are detached in wet weather and then stored in heaps, but the disease may not be seen until planting the following growing season.
[4] It is also recommended, if you are storing the infected fruit, to is in a triazole fungicide such as triadimenol and/or propiconazole and maintain refrigeration at 9 °C which limits the sporulation of conidia.
When trying to minimize transmission of the disease out in the field, it is recommended to improve soil drainage to avoid excess moisture and, therefore, not to plant during wet weather.
Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Fungi Phylum: Ascomycota Subphylum: Pezizomycotina Class: Sordariomycetes Subclass: Hypocremycetidae Order: Microascales Family: Ceratocysidaceae Genus: Ceratocystis Species: paradoxa