JiangTao Hu, Jinglong Fu, Jingyan Zhang, Qian Song, Ying Zhou, Qi Liu, Lingli Ge, Qihan Zhu, SuMei Luo, Lingchang Xiao, Chuihui Xiong
Bottle gourd [Lagenaria siceraria (Mol.) Stand] is a widely cultivated succulent crop species. In December 2022, a serious bottle gourd disease occurred in the protected vegetable planting base of Xingguo County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, China, with 85% of the 2,100 plants having gray mold disease-like symptoms, including gray spots on the infected fruit. They quickly expanded at suitable temperature and humidity, forming a gray mold layer with inward depressions, which spread to the fruit stem causing watery rot, and the flesh turned black and started to rot...
January 10, 2024: Plant Disease