Control of Passion Fruit Fungal Diseases Using Essential Oils Extracted from Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) and Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus agglomerata) in Egerton University Main Campus Njoro, Kenya

Table 1

Common fungal pathogens isolated from passion fruits.

Fungal pathogens	Cultural characteristics	Morphological characteristics	Frequency (%)
Alternaria spp.	Large, brown colonies almost filling the whole plate	Septate branched hyphae with brown conidia	45
Fusarium spp.	Rapidly growing, wooly to cottonly, lemon shaped, and yellow	Multicellular distinctive sickle shaped macro conidlia	22
Colletotrichum spp.	Large cottony growth, pink pigmented	Conidia are one-celled, ovoid to oblong, slightly curved at one	17
Penicillium spp.	Large fluffy white colonies almost covering the whole surface	Nonseptate branched hyphal enlarged at the apex to form conidiophores; they produce brownish black conidia in chains	16