PENICILLIUM FUNICULOSUM ISOLATES ASSOCIATED WITH FRUIT BLEMISHES OF PINEAPPLE (CV MASMERAH) IN PENINSULAR MALAYSIA

W,H. LIM

SUMMARY

Fungi isolated from pineapple fruit blemishes, viz. leathery pocket, cork spot and fruitlet core rot (or black eye) were examined and identified. Penicillium funiculosum was most frequently isolated followed by Fusarium moniliforme. Six morphologicals trains of P. funiculosum were distinguished based on pigmentation, colony characteristics micro-sclerotia production and growth. The frequency of isolation of the strains from the three types of blemishes was also studied.

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