ABSTRACT
Antibiotic-resistant pathogenic microorganisms have raised the demand for finding alternative strategies for reducing environmentally unsustainable chemical pesticide applications. Though chemical treatments have been successfully used, the use of successful physical barrier devices against anthracnose transmission has not been cited in the literature. Anthracnose disease, transmitted by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, attacks all plant parts at any growth stage, the fungi producing asexual spores in acervuli, which appear as dark brown to black spots within lesions, with symptoms being most visible on leaves and ripe fruit. On petioles and stems, anthracnose can produce cankers that cause severe defoliation and rotting of fruit and roots, while small, water-soaked, sunken, circular spots that may increase in size up to 1.2 cm in diameter appear on infected fruit. Anthracnose, the most important mango disease, can coalesce to infect the whole leaf or panicle. On old lesions kept in prolonged wetness the fungus produces conidia, even without acervuli.
