• Radha Bhutekar

In India, fruits have been found to be infected with several diseases in the field as well as more ever in the transport and storage. Perishable nature of fruits, improper physiological maturity, time and technique of harvesting during packaging and transporting leads to post-harvest losses in fruits. This results into enormous qualitative and quantitative losses of fruits in the market. The fruit infection phase of the disease can result in serious economic loss. A post-harvest fruit and food loss constitutes a vast complex of physical and biological changes due to microorganisms like fungi and bacteria. Considering fact an alarming percentage of fruits get spoiled due to parasitic and saprophytic fungi, present study was undertaken to understand responsible fungi to cause papaya fruit rot. In the present research work, numbers of fungi were isolated with respect to different varieties of papaya fruits. These fungi are Alternaria alternata, Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus niger, Botryodiplodia theobromae, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Curvularia lunata, Fusarium equiseti, Fusarium moniliforme, Fusarium solani, Fusarium oxysporum, Gloeosporium papaya, Macrophomina phaseolina, Phoma sp., Phomopsis caricae, Penicillium digitatum, Phytophthora nicotianae and Rhizopus stolonifer

Perishable nature of fruits, papaya, storage fungi, post-harvest loss

"POST HARVEST FUNGAL DISEASES OF PAPAYA FRUIT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no.m526-m530, May-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305C73.pdf

"POST HARVEST FUNGAL DISEASES OF PAPAYA FRUIT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no. ppm526-m530, May-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305C73.pdf