Severe oedema on pumpkin fruit in Katherine, NT, Australia

M. S. A. Khan; B. D. Condé

doi:10.1071/DN08020

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Severe oedema on pumpkin fruit in Katherine, NT, Australia

M. S. A. Khan ^A ^C and B. D. Condé ^B

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^A Plant Pathology, Diagnostic Services Division, Department of Primary Industry, Fisheries and Mines, PO Box 1346, Katherine, NT 0851, Australia.

^B Plant Pathology, Diagnostic Services Division, Department of Primary Industry, Fisheries and Mines, Berrimah Farm, PO Box 3000, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia.

^C Corresponding author. Email: shahid.khan@nt.gov.au

Australasian Plant Disease Notes 3(1) 50-50 https://doi.org/10.1071/DN08020
Submitted: 7 February 2008 Accepted: 6 April 2008 Published: 11 April 2008

Abstract

Oedema of pumpkin fruit, Cucurbita maxima cv. Queensland Blue, is reported from Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Symptoms were numerous raised, corky, often linear blisters over most of the fruit surface.

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