title: List of cucurbit diseases
text: # List of cucurbit diseases
  
  This article is a list of diseases of cucurbits (Citrullus spp., Cucumis spp., Cucurbita spp., and others).
  
  ## Bacterial diseases
  
  Bacterial diseases :
  
  | Angular leaf spot | Pseudomonas amygdali pv. lachrymans |
  | - | - |
  | Bacterial fruit blotch/seedling blight | Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli = Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes subsp. citrulli |
  | Bacterial leaf spot | Xanthomonas campestris pv. cucurbitae |
  | Bacterial rind necrosis | Erwinia spp. |
  | Bacterial soft rot | Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora |
  | Bacterial wilt | Erwinia tracheiphila |
  | Brown spot | Erwinia ananas |
  
  ## Fungal diseases
  
  Fungal diseases :
  
  | Alternaria leaf blight | Alternaria cucumerina |
  | - | - |
  | Alternaria leaf spot | Alternaria alternata f.sp. cucurbitae |
  | Anthracnose (stem, leaf and fruit) | Colletotrichum orbiculare = Colletotrichum lagenarium Glomerella lagenarium [teleomorph] |
  | Belly rot | Rhizoctonia solani Thanatephorus cucumeris [teleomorph] |
  | Black root rot | Thielaviopsis basicola |
  | Blue mold rot | Penicillium spp. Penicillium digitatum |
  | Cephalosporium root and hypocotyl rot, stem streak and dieback | Acremonium spp. = Cephalosporium spp. |
  | Cercospora leaf spot | Cercospora citrullina |
  | Charcoal rot Vine decline and fruit rot | Macrophomina phaseolina |
  | Choanephora fruit rot | Choanephora cucurbitarum |
  | Collapse of melon | Monosporascus eutypoides = Bitrimonospora indica |
  | Corynespora blight/target spot | Corynespora cassiicola |
  | Crater rot (fruit) | Myrothecium roridum |
  | Crown and foot rot | Fusarium solani = Haematonectria haematococca Nectria haematococca [teleomorph] |
  | Damping-off | Acremonium spp. Fusarium spp. Fusarium equiseti Gibberella intricans[teleomorph] Phytophthora sp. Pythium spp. Rhizoctonia solani Thielaviopsis basicola Other fungi |
  | Downy mildew | Pseudoperonospora cubensis |
  | Fusarium fruit rot | Fusarium equiseti = Fusarium roseum f. gibbosum Fusarium graminearum Gibberella zeae [teleomorph] Fusarium semitectum Fusarium solani f. sp. cucurbitae Fusarium spp. |
  | Fusarium wilt | Fusarium oxysporum (with these formae speciales:) Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. benincasae Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cucumerinum Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lagenariae Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. luffae Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. melonis Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. momordicae Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. niveum |
  | Gray mold | Botrytis cinerea Botryotinia fuckeliana [teleomorph] |
  | Gummy stem blight (vine decline) | Didymella bryoniae = Mycosphaerella melonis Phoma cucurbitacearum [anamorph] |
  | Lasiodiplodia vine decline/fruit rot | Lasiodiplodia theobromae = Diplodia natalensis |
  | Monosporascus root rot/Myrothecium canker (black canker) | Monosporascus cannonballus Myrothecium roridum |
  | Net spot | Leandria momordicae |
  | Phoma blight | Phoma exigua var. exigua = Ascochyta phaseolorum |
  | Purple stem | Diaporthe melonis Phomopsis cucurbitae [teleomorph] |
  | Phomopsis black stem | Phomopsis sclerotioides |
  | Phyllosticta leaf spot | Phyllosticta cucurbitacearum |
  | Phytophthora root rot | Phytophthora spp. Phytophthora capsici |
  | Pink mold rot | Trichothecium roseum |
  | Plectosporium blight | Plectosporium tabacinum |
  | Powdery mildew | Sphaerotheca fuliginea Erysiphe cichoracearum |
  | Pythium fruit rot (cottony leak) | Pythium spp. |
  | Rhizopus soft rot (fruit) | Rhizopus stolonifer = Rhizopus nigricans |
  | Scab/gummosis | Cladosporium cucumerinum |
  | Sclerotinia stem rot | Sclerotinia sclerotiorum |
  | Septoria leaf blight | Septoria cucurbitacearum |
  | Southern blight (Sclerotium fruit and stem rot) | Sclerotium rolfsii Athelia rolfsii [teleomorph] |
  | Sudden wilt | Pythium aphanidermatum |
  | Ulocladium leaf spot | Ulocladium consortiale |
  | Verticillium wilt | Verticillium albo-atrum Verticillium dahliae |
  | Web blight | Rhizoctonia solani |
  
  ## Miscellaneous diseases and disorders
  
  Miscellaneous diseases and disorders :
  
  | Air pollution injury | Ozone, sulfur dioxide and others |
  | - | - |
  | Bitter fruit | Sunburn injury, physiologic stress |
  | Blossom end rot | Physiological disorder, calcium deficiency, moisture imbalance |
  | Bottle neck of fruit | Incomplete pollination |
  | Measles | Physiological disorder, salt toxicity |
  | Sandburn | Physiological disorder |
  | Sunscald (fruit) | Excessive or intense direct heat/ solar injury |
  | Windburn | Physiological disorder |
  
  ## Nematodes, parasitic
  
  Nematodes, parasitic :
  
  | Dagger, American | Xiphinema americanum |
  | - | - |
  | Lesion | Pratylenchus spp. |
  | Pin | Paratylenchus spp. |
  | Reniform | Rotylenchulus reniformis |
  | Ring | Circonemella spp. |
  | Root-knot | Meloidogyne spp. |
  | Spiral | Helicotylenchus spp. |
  | Sting | Belonolaimus longicaudatus |
  | Stubby-root | Paratrichodorus minor |
  | Stunt | Tylenchorhynchus claytoni |
  