{"id":11502,"date":"2021-10-05T16:32:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=11502"},"modified":"2024-08-27T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:25:37","slug":"two-new-viruses-a-concern-for-florida-watermelon-industry-vscnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2021\/10\/05\/two-new-viruses-a-concern-for-florida-watermelon-industry-vscnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New Viruses a Concern for Florida Watermelon Industry | VSCNews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vscnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/watermelon-virus-081821-558x1024-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/vscnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/watermelon-virus-081821-558x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"virus symptoms on watermelon leaf\" width=\"558\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo shows watermelon crinkle leaf-associated virus. Courtesy, Katherine Hendricks, UF\/IFAS and VSCNews<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two new watermelon viruses discovered recently in Texas are now a concern of Florida producers. The crinkled leaf-associated virus 1 and 2 have been found in several Florida counties. These viruses add to a long list of disease and virus challenges that farmers must overcome in the Southeast. Growers in Florida can bring leaf samples to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swfrec.ifas.ufl.edu\/programs\/veg-plant-path\/plant-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plant diagnostic lab at the Southwest Florida REC<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and to the lab at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nfrec.ifas.ufl.edu\/plant-pathology-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the North Florida Research and Education Center in Quincy<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-default btn-md\" href=\"https:\/\/vscnews.com\/florida-watermelon-viruses-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new watermelon viruses discovered recently in Texas are now a concern of Florida producers. The crinkled leaf-associated virus 1 and 2 have been found in Collier, Desoto, Glades, Osceola, Charlotte and Seminole counties. They just add to a long list of disease and virus challenges that farmers must overcome in the Southeast.<\/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":[631,321,570],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11502"}],"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=11502"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11509,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11502\/revisions\/11509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}