Plants affected with fusarium wilt exhibit yellowing of lower leaves in initial stages and discolouration of younger leaves soon follows. The leaves drop, wilt and dry. The disease affects a few branches in a plant or the entire plant may wilt irreversibly. The affected plants or branches dry up. The vascular bundles become brown. Plants are usually stunted in growth and fruits ripen prematurely.
Seeds should be planted in disease and nematode free soil. The infected plants should be removed and destroyed. Long crop rotation with non-host crops helps in reduction of the inoculum. Incidence of wilt has been significantly reduced with the application of fungicides as soil drench.
