Morphological and Molecular Analysis of Fusarium species causing Wilt disease in Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
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INTRODUCTION
Fusarium wilt is one of the common and important disease in the watermelon plant (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai). The disease is characterized by darkening of the stem and roots of the plant apparent around the crown and higher taproot. This symptom subsequently causes the withering and drooping of leaves leading to the death of vine or the entire plant. The watermelon Fusarium wilt disease is caused by fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum (Martyn, 2014). This watermelon wilting occurs at the time of fruit maturity, resulting in the entire loss of the crop (Castro et al., 2020).
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