Effective management of vegetable diseases starts by understanding how pathogens are transmitted, what environmental conditions are favorable for disease, and what crops may be more susceptible to a particular pathogen. Education on these areas is key, therefore we have developed a series of fact sheets describing several vegetable diseases and providing information on how to manage the pathogens causing them. If there are fact sheets for specific diseases that you would like to see published in the future, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Cucurbits: Cucumber, watermelon, squash, cantaloupe, pumpkin
Gummy stem blight of cucurbits
Lettuce
Solanaceae: Pepper, potato, and tomato
Phytophthora blight of peppers
Sweetpotato
Fusarium root rot of sweetpotato
Geotrichum sour rot of sweetpotato
Rhizopus soft rot of sweetpotato
Southern blight of sweetpotato
Sweetpotato root knot nematode
Other specialty crops: Hop, basil