LOOK FOR

Look for in shoots
• TYPE 1
• Bleached internodes on dormant canes
• Small black fruiting bodies (pycnidia) in the bleached areas
• Sharp black lines outlining the bleached areas
• TYPE 2
• Bleached internodes on dormant canes
• Elongated black cracks and scars on the lower 3-4 internodes of shoots
• Stunted shoots
  
  Look for in leaves
• TYPE 2
• Small black spots (< 1 mm) with yellow halos on leaves
  

   CONDITIONS

• Spreads during long periods of cool wet weather in spring
• Monitor carefully in the period 3-6 weeks from budburst because actively growing foliage is most susceptible.
  

   NOTES

Phomopsis can be confused with mite damage.