Black Leg

The most serious symptoms occur on stems near the soil line where elongated, sunken, brown lesions form. These lesions may girdle the stem, resulting instunting, wilting, and general poor growth of the plant. If the lesions enlarge, the stem may break, causing the plant to fall over. Lesions usually contain minute, spherical, dark structures that are thefruiting bodiesof the pathogen. If conditions are right, pink masses of spores exude from these structures. If seedlings are infected ear