NC State Cucurbit breeding team: Wehner Lab at NC State
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- Luis evaluated seedlings for gummy Stem blight resistance 2 weeks after innocultation.
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- Luis prepares Gummy Stem Blight innoculum under the hood in the lab before he wounds and sprays watermelon seedlings in the greenhouse.
Quesada vegetable pathology lab at NC State
Allie Druffel is screening watermelon for fusarium resistance.
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- Allie drenches the roots of watermelon seedlings with fusarium innoculum.
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- Allie dilutes Fusarium innoculum for drenching roots.
Watermelon Diseases
- Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus: Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV)
- Downy mildew: Pseudoperonospora cubensis
- Fusarium wilt Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum (F. oxysporum)
- Gummy stem blight Didymella bryoniae (anamorph = Phoma cucurbitacearum)
- Papaya ringspot virus : Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV)
- Phytophthora fruit rot Phytophthora capsici
- Powdery mildew Podosphaera xanthii and Erysiphe cichoracearum
