Several diseases invading the crop are the major constraints for limited brinjal production and productivity. The most destructive and important disease on brinjal are Brinjal leaf blight and fruit rot incited by the fungus, Phomopsis vexans (Sacc. & Syd.) Harter (Edgerton and Moreland, 1921). The fruit rot distinctively is the most destructive phase of disease which damages the fruit partially or completely in the field as well as during transit. On the fruits, the disease appears as minute sunken greyish spots with
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