This review describes different postharvest fungal diseases like blue mold, Anthracnose and fruit rot of Indian gooseberry along with its management strategies that covers physical, chemical and biological methods. The physical methods of management include osmo-drying, hot water treatment, UV-C treatment, application of high electric field current, efficient packaging in low and high density polythene pouches.Chemical methods involve treatment with different synthetic fungicides like Bavistin, Mancozeb, Gibberellic acid, Carbendazim, Calcium nitrate and Calcium sulphate. Lastly, the biological control methods have been mentioned, which includes application of microbial antagonists and naturally occurring antifungal compounds.
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Sengupta et al. (2019) studied this question.