Fusarium wilt of watermelon Fusarium wilt of watermelon is the most widespread and destructive disease of watermelon in the southeastern United States. When this disease is severe, many watermelons ...

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Strawberry losses from Fusarium wilt could become less of a threat after researchers at the University of California, Davis, discovered genes that are resistant to the deadly soil-borne disease. “What ...

Rows of Pima and Upland cotton from screening trial of Fusarium wilt disease. (Bob Hutmacher/UC Davis) Researchers with the University of California, Davis, the USDA Agricultural Research Service and ...

Fusarium wilt of lettuce is a devastating vascular disease caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae, which poses a significant threat to lettuce production globally. The pathogen invades the plant ...

Cotton is an important crop worldwide and grown in large amounts in the United States, which provided 38 percent of cotton exports in 2017. One of the greatest threats to cotton production is Fusarium ...

Verticillium and fusarium wilt are soil-borne fungal diseases caused by different pathogens that result in similar symptoms. Primarily affecting eggplants, peppers, potatoes, pumpkins and tomatoes, ...

The previous CRP related to mutation breeding in banana, CRP 22005, focused on developing efficient screening techniques to identify mutants with disease resistance. Screening protocols developed from ...

There will come a time that people realize that there are not enough bananas, and prices will shoot up,” says Fresh Del Monte ...

Considered the most lethal banana disease in the world, the Banana Fusarium Wilt, is a killer that is rapidly spreading in Latin America and hurting global supplies of the world’s most popular export ...

Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection, Vol. 124, No. 4 (August 2017), pp. 361-370 (10 pages) The efficacy of dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) applied in pre-planting treatment by shank injection was ...