Similarly, duration of exposure to a moist environment also has an effect on disease severity. With the increase in time that inoculated plants were kept in a saturated moist environment, the disease severity also increased in a linear relationship. Ideal moisture exposure is 72 hours, which suggests that it takes the pathogen that long to establish optimal inoculation of the host tissue. There are no insect vectors that were found to specifically influence the spread of this pathogen.
