{"id":10648,"date":"2021-04-28T11:26:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T15:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=10648"},"modified":"2024-08-27T16:32:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:32:43","slug":"georgia-watermelon-plants-vulnerable-to-diseases-following-excessive-rains-vscnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2021\/04\/28\/georgia-watermelon-plants-vulnerable-to-diseases-following-excessive-rains-vscnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Watermelon Plants Vulnerable to Diseases Following Excessive Rains | VSCNews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After heavy rains, Georgia watermelon producers were warned that multiple diseases that could play a factor in the production season moving forward.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newswire.caes.uga.edu\/story.html?storyid=7564&amp;story=Watermelon-Research\">Gummy stem blight<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/newswire.caes.uga.edu\/story.html?storyid=5847&amp;story=Downy-Mildew-Disease\">downy mildew<\/a> both thrive in wet and humid conditions. Cooperative Extension plant pathologists encourage growers to start their disease management program soon after a rain event.\u00a0The potential for these diseases also comes at a time when fusarium wilt is likely to occur. The cooler soil temperatures also predispose the plant to fusarium wilt disease.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-default btn-md\" href=\"https:\/\/vscnews.com\/georgia-watermelon-diseases-rains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1053px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/vscnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/73B095AF-A2FA-4A40-A6C0-012BC01CDFCA-1043x782.jpeg\" alt=\"watermelon plants\" width=\"1043\" height=\"782\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watermelon field hurt by recent rainfall. (Photo by Bhabesh Dutta)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After heavy rains, Georgia watermelon producers were warned that multiple diseases that could play a factor in the production season moving forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[631,581],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10648"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10659,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648\/revisions\/10659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}