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Lesions will look necrotic and may be near veins. On fruit, water soaked lesions will be small and irregular (they average 1 cm diameter and may be sunken) but then progress through the rind. The fruit then decays and cracks when the pathogen causes necrosis. These lesions open the plant to secondary infections as well.
Temperature and moisture are the most important factors in the spread of gummy stem blight. For watermelon and cucumber, the best temperature for infection is around 25 °C; for melon the best temperature is around 20 °C. [2] Continual leaf wetness from 1–10 hours is necessary for germination, sporulation, and colonization of conidia. [4]
Dischidia ovata, commonly called watermelon dischidia (pronounced / d ɪ s ˈ k ɪ d i ə /), is a small vine in the frangipani and hoya family Apocynaceae, native to New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula, Australia. [3] The species name ovata refers to its ovate leaves, its common
Bacterial diseases; Angular leaf spot Pseudomonas amygdali pv.lachrymans: Bacterial fruit blotch/seedling blight Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli = Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes subsp. citrulli
Watermelon is grown in favorable climates from tropical to temperate regions worldwide for its large edible fruit, which is a berry with a hard rind and no internal divisions, and is botanically called a pepo. The sweet, juicy flesh is usually deep red to pink, with many black seeds, although seedless varieties exist.
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Watermelon mosaic virus (WMV) also known as Marrow mosaic virus (Raychaudhuri and Varma, 1975; Varma, 1988), Melon mosaic virus (Iwaki et al., 1984; Komuro, 1962), and until recently Watermelon mosaic virus type 2 (WMV-2), [1] is a plant pathogenic virus [2] that causes viral infection (sometimes referred to as watermelon Mosaic disease) in many different plants.