Blight of pepper
from the root to the foot, but direct infection of the foot also occurs. Exudates leaking from growing root tips promote germination and attract the zoospores [...] plants. The small roots die and brown-black lesions occur on the larger roots. Plants wilt and the crown leaves drop off. Life cycle and appearance of Blight [...] zoospores. The pathogen grows into the stem and on the plant surface and new sporangiophores (structures containing sporangia, a type of spores) with sporangia