कृषि ज्ञान ब्लॉग — Gummy Stem Blight in watermelon

Gummy Stem Blight [GSB] has become one of the important and deadly disease of cucurbit crops. This disease is infecting cucumber, ridge gourd, bottle gourd, watermelon, muskmelon crops.  Under favourable conditions for disease development, gummy stem blight [GSB] can infect at stage of the plant growth and crop stages. GSB can infect seedlings to fruit stage.      Why the name gummy stem blight [GSB]? The plants of the infected crop show the symptoms of oozing out the gummy substance from the stems, sometimes from the growing the branches with splitting. The infected plants show different symptoms may be based...