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Sensitivity of Postharvest Rot Fungi of Bananas to Chlorine. P. A. Arneson, Plant Pathologist, Division of Tropical Research, Tela Railroad Company (A subsidiary of the United Fruit Company), La Lima, Honduras; Phytopathology 61:344-345. DOI: 10.1094/Phyto-61-344.

Virtually complete kill of Cephalosporium sp., Fusarium roseum, Gloeosporium musarum, and Verticillium theobromae conidia was obtained with 2 ppm chlorine or less with a 1-minute exposure at pH 7.0. Botryodiplodia theobromae and Deightoniella torulosa conidia survived a 1-minute exposure to 24 ppm chlorine and required more than 20 minutes to kill at lower chlorine concentrations.