Cucurbits – Gummy Stem Blight
Didymella bryoniae
Cucurbits – Gummy Stem Blight Signs & Symptoms
- Infected melon
- Infected melons
- Pycnidia from infected fruit
Cucurbits – Gummy Stem Blight Pathogen
- Conidia
- Conidia
- Conidia at ostiolar opening
- Vertical section at point of contact between two pycnidia. Conidia obvious in both.
- Gelatinous matrix extruding from conidial ostiole, spermatia evident.
- Gelatinous matrix extruding from conidial ostiole, spermatia evident.
- Pycnidia, vertical section. Conidia extruding from ostiole.
- Pycnidium, partial vertical section
- Pycnidia, vertical section
- Pycnidia, vertical section
- Pycnidia from infected fruit