{"id":7876,"date":"2019-06-26T16:43:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=7876"},"modified":"2022-03-22T17:30:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T21:30:40","slug":"watermelon-rootstock-proves-resistant-to-disease-and-pests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2019\/06\/26\/watermelon-rootstock-proves-resistant-to-disease-and-pests\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon rootstock proves resistant to disease and pests"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A new watermelon line, developed by Agricultural Research Service (<a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwNjI1LjczNDY0MzEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwNjI1LjczNDY0MzEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNjc4MjY2MyZlbWFpbGlkPWNjYXRhbGRvQHBvcnRhbGZydXRpY29sYS5jb20mdXNlcmlkPWNjYXRhbGRvQHBvcnRhbGZydXRpY29sYS5jb20mdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPSZtdmlkPSZleHRyYT0mJiY=&amp;&amp;&amp;103&amp;&amp;&amp;https:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ARS<\/a>) and Clemson University scientists, is serving as a solution against major disease and pests of watermelon crops in the southern U.S., says the USDA.<\/p>\n<p>The innovative variety is a rootstock watermelon called Carolina Strongback. It is resistant to both Fusarium wilt and the southern root-knot nematode, according to\u00a0William \u201cPat\u201d Wechter, plant pathologist with the ARS U.S. Vegetable Research Laboratory (USVL) in Charleston, South Carolina.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This story was published by multiple news sources including <a href=\"https:\/\/ipm.ces.ncsu.edu\/2019\/06\/watermelon-rootstock-resistant-to-fusarium-wilt-and-southern-root-knot-nematodes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NC State Extension<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningagclips.com\/watermelon-rootstock-knocks-out-disease-pests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Morning Ag clips<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/vscnews.com\/novel-watermelon-rootstock-knocks-out-disease-and-pests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vegetable and Specialty Crop News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-default btn-md\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/news-events\/news\/research-news\/2019\/novel-watermelon-rootstock-knocks-out-disease-and-pests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new watermelon line, developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Clemson University scientists, is serving as a solution against major disease and pests of watermelon crops in the southern U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[572],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876"}],"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=7876"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11406,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions\/11406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}