Leprosy tuberculate

Tuberculous leprosy is one of the types of fungal plant diseases that causes burgundy lesions of the stems and roots of fruit, berry and vegetable crops.

**Synonyms** ***Leprosy "Pulp"*** _**Manishka mold spores**_ **Morphology** Leprosy consists of a thickened, off-white mycelium of irregular shape and round lobed spores sitting on the mycelium or in special cells called peridium. The sizes of mycelial cells range from 5 to 60 microns. The spores measure about 34.5 µm in diameter and 27 µm in length. On the surface of the spore, two prosenchymes are visible, up to 5 mm long and 1.2 µm thick, on which microfilaments 120-200 nm long are located. The peridium of an adult spore is relatively thick and inconspicuous, but still often merges with the mycelium. Inside the spore there are two seed sacs measuring 850x25-35 microns and with a diameter from 2.44 to 4-5 microns. In the first, larger sac, there is a macrospore, similar in structure to a microspore, and has the appearance of a rounded vesicle about 840 microns in size, filled with a colorless liquid. The macrospore lies on a thin stalk that penetrates it to the very end. The second sac is 1.5-2 times smaller than the macrospore and does not have a stalk, sometimes surrounded by a thin border of microsporangium remains. Microspores dispersed in the macrospore habitat must be non-sterile and capable of forming a macrospore. The development of macrospores is a long process and takes from several weeks to 2-3 months, especially under unfavorable growing conditions and a lack of nutrients. As the macrospore grows, its shell