disease in crops – Gramophone

Management of gummy stem blight in the pumpkin, watermelon, melon crop

Choose healthy seeds.
Inspect transplantation and uproot the infected plants and leave the farm out of the field.
spray chlorothalonil 75% WP @ 350gm / acre or
spray tebuconazole 25.9% EC @ 200 ml / acre solution.

In this disease, infection is visible on almost every part of the plant except the roots.
A Yellowness/greenness occurs at the edges of the leaves, while spots start occurring on their surfaces.
The wound is formed on the stem of the plant which is infected by this disease. Then a black-coloured gummy substance starts releasing from this wound.
On the string, brown spots become black spots which later go to the wound.
In bottle gourd seeds have medium-brown, dark spots.