Professional paper

BACTERIAL DISEASES OF CUCURBITS

Jelena Plavec orcid.org/0000-0002-0449-2351 ; Hrvatska agencija za poljoprivredu i hranu Zagreb, Centar za zaštitu bilja

Abstract

The plants of the Cucurbitaceae family are especially susceptible to certain phytopathogenic bacteria. Under favourable, warm and moist, weather conditions for disease development, economic losses can be substantial due to the appearance and poor quality of the fruit. In Croatia, cucurbit production has not been severely compromised by bacterial diseases. However, influence of climate change combined with intensive trade of plant material represent real threat from pathogen introductions including phytophatogenic bacteria and may result in unprecedented effects. This article briefly describes major bacterial diseases of cucurbit plants with special accent on their symptoms, epidemiology and control measures.

Keywords

family Cucurbitaceae; bacterial diseases; symptoms; epidemiology; control mesures

Hrčak ID:

237087

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/237087

Publication date:

1.4.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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