| 1. | These spots are specialized asexual fruiting bodies called acervuli.
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| 2. | When the acervuli accumulate into masses, they resemble little drops of tar.
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| 3. | The acervuli are fruiting structures that will eventually produce asexual spores called conidia.
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| 4. | Signs of orange-colored acervuli on the fruit, bark, and dead branches have been recorded.
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| 5. | Ascospores infect directly, while the infected plant tissue produces acervuli which produces masses of conidia on conidiophores.
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| 6. | When observed under a dissecting microscope acervuli can often be spotted if the diseased tissue has recently been under sporulating conditions.
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| 7. | The infection hyphae arising from those appressoria then colonize the fruit, causing necrosis of the tissues on which new acervuli form.
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| 8. | Throughout spring and summer, the fungus produces acervuli becomes the secondary sources of infection for the remainder of the growing seasons.
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| 9. | Dark, disc or cushion-shaped acervuli are formed under the plant epidermis which then splits open revealing the fruiting structures.
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| 10. | The fruiting structures are spherical with an opening at the apex ( pycnidia ) or are disc-shaped ( acervuli ).
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