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Sunday, November 2, 2014
Diseases of Pumpkins
In honor of Halloween, this article will be about diseases of pumpkins. This 2014 growing season, pumpkins were getting angular leaf spot. The pumpkins were also getting an another type of disease called bacterial leaf spot. Symptoms of the angular leaf spot disease are spotted by farmers very easily. This disease is also common in cucumbers, melons, and squash. Lesions appear on the object and they become brittle and break. Pseudomonas syringae pv. lachrymans, which causes angular leaf spot, begins in the seed and can infect the pumpkin before it even grows. Xanthomonas cucurbitae causes bacterial leaf spot. The lesions appear underneath the leaf and are very small. These diseases are mostly present in midwestern parts of the United States. It is in places like Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Ohio. Since both of these diseases are seed born they are hard to control. Angular leaf spot and bacterial leaf spot have only known to come up in the year 2014 and they are trying to control them so the 2015 growing season is not ruined.
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WOW! Diseases are just spreading everywhere now aren't they? I've never heard of pumpkins getting a disease... I've never even heard of this type of disease in pumpkins either but it doesn't sound very good. I definitely think that someone should do something about it so things don't get worse in 2015. We should come up with a way to cure or eradicate this disease in the pumpkins; You got to have pumpkins for the Halloween season!
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