Field sanitation and the occurrence of brown spot disease of rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum) fruits

Abstract

Rambutan fruits harvested from fields where leaf litter was allowed to collected showed a higher incidence and severity of brown spot caused by Gliocephalotrichum microchlamydosporum. G. microchlamydosporum, two other postharvest fungal pathogens, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and Botryodiplodia theobromac were also isolated from leaf litter.