Botrytis cinerea causes gray mold. Botrytis can act as a wound pathogen and cause decays of fruit wounded during harvest. However, in New York it appears most often as storage decay that originates from the calyx ends of fruit and causes a relatively firm decay with a pale brown “baked apple” appearance. We suspect but have not yet proven that most of the gray mold that develops in CA storages results from sepal infections that occur during the bloom to petal fall period. (2006)
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2005 New Fungicide Options for Postharvest Decay Control (download) /(web)
