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Abstract Date palm has been known 4 thousand years B.C., cultivated area exists in most continents of the world. The date is one of the most important fruit crops in Egypt as well as in many other countries of the world specially in the Arab countries. According to Ministry of Agriculture Statistics, (Anonymous, 1992) there are about seven million trees of different varieties; which produce about 603652 tons whereas these varieties are Zaghlool, Samani, Bent Eisha, Abriemi, Agalani, Arnhat, Amry, Haiany, Sicwi, Bertamoda and Gargora. Several pathogenic fungi attack date fruits during storage and marketing causing serious losses, such as Alternaria alternata, Cladosporium herbarwn, Thielaviopsispa radoxa, Penicillium spp, Rhizopus nigricmzs, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus jlavus and Candida jp (Klotz, 1930; Fawcett, 1931: Gafar et al., 1979: Baraka eta/., 1985 and Omamor, 1988), The goal of this study was to investigate the etiology of date fruJt rots during storage and marketing: as well as physiological and chemical studies. Also. disease management including. different type of con tamers, hiological control, Postharvest fungicides, as well as effect of sulphur dioxide (SO~), Sodium bisulfite, Sodium Carbonate and Borax. Also. Using hot water treatments before cold storage. At the same time, the |