Cucurbit disease management resources from the Cornell Vegetable program including content from the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center Vegetable Pathology website and the former Vegetable MD Online website have been moved to a new website.
McGrath Lab at Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center
Margaret McGrath leads the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center at Cornell University. The McGrath Lab and the Smart Lab are both part of the Cornell Vegetable Group.
Management Strategies of Phytophthora Blight in Cucurbits
The USDA has identified vegetable crops as challenged specialty crops. Cucurbits are important cash crops in the United States. The profitable and sustainable production of cucurbits is severely impacted by the destructive soilborne disease, Phytophthora blight.
Powdery mildew management | VGNews
Plant Pathologists at Land Grant Universities conduct fungicide efficacy trials on cucurbits to determine spray programs to recommend. Results of these trials are published in Plant Disease Management Reports.
Field Scouting Guide for Phytophthora
Watermelon Downy Mildew Alert
Downy Mildew News | Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension
Symptoms were found on cucumber on 7/20 at a farm on the North Fork through the Cornell Cooperative Extension IPM Scouting Program.
Cucurbit Downy Mildew present in multiple regions
Reports of the presence of Cucurbit downy mildew were published by Plant Pathologists in North America.
Cucurbit Disease Factsheets | Cornell Vegetables
These factsheets from Cornell CALS can be found on the Cornell Vegetable Program and the Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center websites.
