HIGHLIGHTS Three species of Cucurbitaceae family are evaluated against the salt stress. Higher levels salinity have more adverse effects on growth cucurbits. The varieties bottle gourd performed well

Abstract Spotted cucumber beetle ( Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi ; also known as southern corn rootworm) is a pest feeding on many crops, including cucurbits, (maize), peanuts, beans, and other crops wild plants in North America. On cucurbit where it co-occurs with striped Acalymma vittatum ), both are key pests that vector Erwinia tracheiphila, destructive pathogen causes bacterial wilt. ...

Cucurbits are vegetable crops, belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae, which primarily comprises species consumed as food worldwide. an excellent fruit in nature, composed of all essential constituents required for good health humans [1].

We exploited the potential of cucurbits for ectopic gene expression. Agroinfiltration is a simple and commonly used method to obtain transient expression of foreign genes in plants. In contrast to in vitro transformation techniques, agroinfiltration can be used for genetic modification of mature plant tissues. Although the cucurbits are commonly used as model plants for molecular biology and bi...

Cucurbits comprise the highly diverse family known as Cucurbitaceae that includes cultivated, feral, and wild species (Robinson and Decker-Walters, 1997). Many of the cultivated species such as squash (Cucurbita ssp.), watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai], cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.), and melon (Cucumis melo L.) are familiar to U.S. and world markets. Others such as bitter ...

In the article, conditions of bioecological development pest species, dynamics during vegetation period and criterion harmfulness, types diseases are studied in fields. Information on biological effectiveness measures controlling pests encountered fields is given. KEY WORDS: cucurbits crops, melon, melon fly, porosity making diseases, control.

Citation: Zhang X, Zhao M, Yan J, Yang L, Yang Y, Guan W, Walcott R and Zhao T (2018) Involvement of hrpX and hrpG in the Virulence of Acidovorax citrulli Strain Aac5, Causal Agent of Bacterial Fruit Blotch in Cucurbits. Front. Microbiol. 9:507. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00507 Involvement of hrpX and hrpG in the Virulence of Acidovorax citrulli Strain Aac5, Causal Agent of Bacterial Fruit Blotch ...

The cucurbits belong to the family Cucurbitaceous (gourd family) under order Cucurbit ales which include many economically important vegetable and fruit species. Among various factors, viruses are one of factors reducing in quantity as well quality cucurbits. These crops severely affected by cucurbit mosaic disease worldwide, is major viral Considering importance disease, present investigation ...

abstract the pythium spp. are known as the principle agents of seedling blight, damping-off and root rot of cucurbits. this study was performed for determination of pythium species involved in this diseases as well study their pathogenecity on different cucurbits. the numerous samples were taken at cultivation seasons 2006- 2007 from the fields of cucumber, tomato, egg plant, muskmelon, cucurbi...