Nathan Kleczewski, Extension Specialist – Plant Pathology; nkleczew@udel.edu The recent warm, rainy weather has been favorable for some foliar pathogens in corn, in particular, anthracnose. Foliar symptoms of anthracnose are often observed in young corn (prior to V5 in many… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu The weather based forecasting program MELCAST has begun for 2008. MELCAST is a weather-based spray scheduling program for anthracnose and gummy stem blight of watermelon. If you received… Continue Reading
Kate Everts, Vegetable Pathologist, University of Delaware and University of Maryland; keverts@umd.edu The fungal diseases gummy stem blight, Alternaria leaf blight, and anthracnose can be introduced into the greenhouse on watermelon seed or through inoculum from a previous crop. To… Continue Reading
