Triploid Watermelons Resist Fruit Blotch Organism

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 18:56-58 (article 27) 1995 J.T. Garret, B.B. Rhodes and Xingping Zhang Department of Horticulture, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 Watermelon fruit blotch disease (WFB), presently attributed to the bacterium Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli, is a devastating disease which renders infected watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsumura and Nakai] fruits unmarketable. This disease […]

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