BACTERIAL BLIGHT (BOLL ROT)
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Cotton

SOURCE:
A. Hayward
DISEASE:
Bacterial blight (Boll rot)
HOST:
Cotton
(Gossypium barbadense)
Boll rot first appears as raised, water-soaked lesions, which become sunken and turn brown to black with time.
PATHOGEN:
Xanthomonas citri subsp. malvacearum
PATHOGEN SYNONYM:
Xanthomonas campestris pv. malvacearum