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Over the last fifteen years, a new disease of muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) has produced serious losses to this crop in Spain. The causal agent of this disease is a Deuteromycete fungus named Acremonium cucurbitacearum A.Alfaro-García, W.Gams et J.García-Jiménez (1). The disease has been called acremonium melon collapse and the most obvious symptom is a nonvascular wilt of the plant as the first fruits approach maturity. Root symptoms appear soon after planting and include yellow discoloration and corking of the upper root, generalized death of adventious roots, and continous production of superficial roots. Aerial part of the plant does not show symptoms until wilting occurs (5). Application of molecular techniques to study genetic variations in field isolates of this fungus (8) provided the necessary information to resolve its taxonomic position, being described as a new species. Recently, the same disease has been observed in melon production areas of California (2) and Texas (3).
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Abad, P., Hack, T., Vicente, M.J., Bruton, B.D., Jiménez, J.G. (1997). Vegetative Compatibility Groups in Acremonium Cucurbitacearum . In: Dehne, HW., Adam, G., Diekmann, M., Frahm, J., Mauler-Machnik, A., van Halteren, P. (eds) Diagnosis and Identification of Plant Pathogens. Developments in Plant Pathology, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0043-1_59
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