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Quesada-Ocampo Lab @ NC State

The NC State Vegetable Pathology Lab studies diseases of cucurbit crops to deliver novel and improved disease management strategies to growers in North Carolina and advance knowledge in the field of vegetable pathology.

USDA grant addresses Anthracnose in Cucurbits

December 30, 2023August 20, 2024 cuccap Cucurbit Genetics, Genomics, & Pathology

Several CucCAP Team members are collaborating on an important USDA project focused on managing anthracnose in cucurbits. University of Georgia Scientists will lead the team from Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, New York and the USDA Vegetable Laboratory in Charles, South Carolina.

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Multistate Effort to Combat Anthracnose

December 20, 2023August 20, 2024 cuccap Cucurbit Genetics, Genomics, & Pathology

Anthracnose — is an emerging threat to watermelon and cucumber production along the east coast.

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Management Strategies of Phytophthora Blight in Cucurbits

December 7, 2023December 7, 2023 cuccap CucCAP Disease Management Team, Cucurbit Crop & Disease Management Resources

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.

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Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Kelly Avila

November 8, 2023December 21, 2023 cuccap CucCAP Disease Management Team

Kelly Avila is a Post Doctoral Researcher and works with CucCAP Plant Pathologist Dr. Lina Quesada in the Vegetable Pathology Lab at NC State University. She chose to work in the Quasada lab because of the focus on Extension, integrated disease management, and genomics.

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Field Scouting Guide for Phytophthora

September 25, 2023August 25, 2024 cuccap Cucurbit Crop & Disease Management Resources

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CDM confirmed on squash in Johnson County, N.C.

September 5, 2023September 19, 2023 cuccap CucCAP Disease Management Team

This disease was confirmed on squash in Johnson County, North Carolina on August 25, 2023. Disease incidence was approximately 15% and the affected leaves showed 45% disease severity.

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Cucumber field trials 2023

August 25, 2023November 14, 2023 cuccap CucCAP Disease Management Team

The Vegetable Pathology Lab at NC State conducts field trials each growing season to study plant pathogens, resistance of plant varieties to pathogens, and vegetable disease management strategies. When a field trial is harvested, the crop is weighed, graded, and evaluated for disease damage and marketability.

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12th International Congress of Plant Pathology

Dr. Lina Quesada will make a presentation at this meeting.

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CucCAP scientists use cucumber core collection to map fruit quality traits

The CucCAP core collection, comprised of 388 accessions representing >96% of the genetic diversity for cucumber present in the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System, harbors important sources of disease resistance. As sources of resistance are often present in germplasm with poor fruit quality, scientists from Michigan State University characterized the collection for fifteen fruit quality traits. Genetic associations (QTL) for each trait were identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Many of the genetic locations were in close vicinity to previously identified fruit trait QTL and candidate genes; several novel loci and genes potentially important for these traits were also identified.

For further reading:

Lin YC, Weng Y, Fei Z, Grumet R. 2025. Mining the cucumber core collection: phenotypic and genetic characterization of morphological diversity for fruit quality characteristics. Horticulture Research 12:uhae340.

 

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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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Boyce Thompson Institute; Cornell University; Michigan State University; North Carolina State University; Clemson University; University of Puerto Rico; University of Wisconsin; University of Florida; University of Georgia; West Virginia State University; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service

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