{"id":14505,"date":"2023-07-27T17:46:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=14505"},"modified":"2023-07-27T17:53:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T21:53:29","slug":"2023-watermelon-trial-for-fusarium-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2023\/07\/27\/2023-watermelon-trial-for-fusarium-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Watermelon trial for Fusarium resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Increased Fusarium Pressure Putting a Damper on Watermelon Crop in South Carolina<\/h2>\n<p>In an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growingproduce.com\/vegetables\/cucurbits\/increased-fusarium-pressure-putting-a-damper-on-watermelon-crop-in-south-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article in Growing Produce<\/a>,<\/strong> Clemson Research and Extension Vegetable Pathologist Tony Keinath discusses management of Fusarium wilt on watermelon and disease resistance of several watermelon varieties that were tested in 2023 CucCAP field trials at the Edisto Research and Education Center.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For more information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.clemson.edu\/cool-spring-temperatures-slow-watermelon-crop-and-increase-fusarium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cool spring temperatures slow watermelon crop, increase Fusarium infections<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\npublished by Clemson News on July 19, 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delaying transplanting until the soil has warmed to about 81 degrees at a 4-inch depth can reduce the number of plants with Fusarium wilt.<br \/>\nEleanor and Fascination are partially resistant cultivars that have been shown to perform better when Fusarium wilt is present. But grafting is more effective\u2026and more expensive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,241],"tags":[515,565,590],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505"}],"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=14505"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14512,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505\/revisions\/14512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}