Crop Protection — Cucurbit Phdiseases 4
- Fruits in intimate contact with soil is affected
- Forms a luxuriant wooly mycelial mat on the affected fruits
- Skin of the friut shows soft, dark green, water soaked lesions
- Interior tissue become watery and soft and decaying matter emits a bad odour
- Mycelium - intra-cellular, hyaline and coenocytic
- Oogonia - smooth and spherical
- Antheridia - broadly clavate, terminal or intercallary
- Spreads among the fruits during the storage and transit
- High moisture and temperature - favours the growth
- Soil drenching with copperoxychloride - 0.25%
- Fruits should be kept away from soil
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| Soil contacted infected cucumber | Wool mycelial mat on cucumber | Wool mycelial mat on pumkin | Pythium Rot on Mini Pumpkin |
