Pocket Rot (Phoma exigua )

Pocket Rot

Pocket Rot: biology

Infects tubers through wounds incurred during harvest and grading operations, particularly when soils are wet and cool.

Pocket Rot: damage description

Small dark depressions appear on the tuber and the covering skin may crack.

Pocket Rot: management

Use clean seed and good crop rotation practices. Minimize tuber wounds and apply a post-harvest fungicide.