ibps-so 2016 · Question 377 of 394

A mango orchard in a humid coastal tract has reported losses in the harvested consignment as well as on the tree. On the young leaves and the twigs there are small brown, sunken spots which enlarge and run together, the panicles blacken and dry, and on the ripening fruit, and again in the packed boxes a few days after harvest, round, sunken, black lesions appear which bear a salmon-pink spore mass in the centre when the weather is humid. The plant protection adviser has prescribed pre-harvest sprays and a hot water dip for the harvested fruit, and the eld o cer has to name the pathogen correctly in the note recording the loss, since the crop loss claim of the borrower rests on it. The pathogen causing the disease so described in mango is

1. AOidium mangiferae
2. BFusarium mangiferae
3. CBotryodiplodia theobromae
4. DErwinia carotovora
5. EColletotrichum gloeosporioidesCorrect