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USDA project | Cucurbit Anthracnose management

December 23, 2023January 29, 2024 cuccap CucCAP Project Partners

Colletotrichum spp., which causes anthracnose is an emerging threat to watermelon and cucumber production in the east coast. UGA leads effort to tackle emerging threat to watermelons.

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Gummy Stem Blight on watermelon and cucumbers

April 11, 2022November 2, 2022 cuccap Cucurbit Crop & Disease Management Resources

According to the South Florida Pest and Disease Hotline, Gummy stem blight disease has increased in cucurbit fields across southwest Florida in recent weeks. It has become the predominate disease in some watermelon fields in the area. The disease remains moderate in cucumber crops on the east coast.

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Pickle Packers International 2021 Meeting | CANCELLED

CucCAP scientists Lina Quesada and Daniel Tregeagle will make presentations at this meeting. Meeting agenda and location will be posted soon.

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The Story of Cucumbers in North Carolina | NC State Extension

July 8, 2019September 22, 2021 cuccap CucCAP Disease Management Team

Jonathan Schultheis discusses cucumber production in North Carolina in this video from NC State Cooperative Extensions Homegrown video series.

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CucCAP scientists identify powdery mildew resistant pumpkin lines with good canning quality

Processing pumpkins grown for pie are susceptible to infection by cucurbit powdery mildew. CucCAP researchers at Cornell University sought to identify powdery mildew-resistant reeding lines with high canning quality by testing progeny derived from a cross between the susceptible industry standard and a resistant butternut squash. Two breeding lines identified with moderate and high levels of resistance were assessed for multiple canning quality traits in comparison with a store-bought commercial standard. These studies indicated that effective resistance has been bred into a commercially promising processing pumpkin background.

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Indemaur et al., 2025. Processing Pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata Duchesne) Breeding Lines with Resistance to Powdery Mildew and Their Canning Quality. HortScience 60:530-537. DOI 10.21273/HORTSCI18433-24

 

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The Cucurbit Coordinated Agricultural Project (CucCAP) is a USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture Specialty Crop Research Initiative grant under award number
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