How to identify Gummy Stem blight disease in the pumpkin, watermelon, melon crop.

  • 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.
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