Peach Fruit Rots Caused by Botryosphaeria spp. and Glomerella cingulata. Laure H. Rittenburg, Graduate Assistant, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602. Floyd F. Hendrix, Jr., Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602. Plant Dis. 67:449-450. Accepted for publication 2 December 1982. Copyright 1983 American Phytopathological Society. DOI: 10.1094/PD-67-449.

Botryosphaeria obtusa, B. dothidea, B. rhodina, and Glomerella cingulata have been isolated from decaying peach fruit in production areas in Georgia and Alabama. In pathogenicity tests, these organisms caused a rot of unripe, mature, and ripe peach fruit. Wounds were necessary for infection except when infected twigs were used as an inoculum source and placed on unwounded fruit.