Impact of post harvest chemical dip and wax coating on sooty blotch and fly speck disease complex of apple Ashraf Sabiha1, Ahmad Qazi Nissar1,2, Ahmad Shahzad1 1Division of Plant Pathology, S. K. University of Agricultural Science and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar, Srinagar, (J&K) - 191 121 2Division of Post Harvest Technology, S. K. University of Agricultural Science and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar, Srinagar, (J&K) - 191 121 Abstract Various chemicals were evaluated as post harvest dip for removing sooty blotch and flyspeck disease symptoms from infected apple cv. ‘Red Delicious’ fruits. Amongst the chemicals tested, calcium hypochlorite @ 5.0% and sodium hypochlorite + sodium bicarbonate (@ 3.0+1.0%) proved most effective treatments which completely removed disease complex compared to 65.74 and 76.85% disease intensity recorded in check I (water dip) and check II (no dip), respectively. Among coatings, Wax-Shool coated fruits proved superior to Virosil-Agro and non coated fruits. Top Key words Apple, chemicals, flyspeck, sooty blotch, Virosil-Agro, Wax-Shool. Top |