The Vegetable and Specialty Crop News June 2019 edition features two articles about disease problems of interest to cucurbit growers. An article from Florida State Cooperative Extension Vegetable Pathology titled, What to do about watermelon gummy stem blight and fusarium wilt, highlights two disease priorities on watermelon. The need for new virus resistant squash and melon cultivars is discussed by University of Georgia Department of Entomology in the second article titled, Whitefly-transmitted viruses pose problems in vegetables.
