Cucurbit Research Program

 
Publications list for the cucurbits:
  • Hopkins, D. L. and G. W. Elmstrom. 1974. Severity of bacterial rind necrosis in watermelon cultivars in Florida. Proc. Fla. State Hort. Soc. 87:184-187.

  • Hopkins, D. L. and G. W. Elmstrom. 1977. Etiology of watermelon rind necrosis. Phytopathology 67:961-964.

  • Hopkins,D.L. 1989. Bacterial fruit blotch of watermelon: A new disease of watermelon,p74-75. In: C.E. Thomas(ed). Proc. Cucurbitacease 89; Evaluation and enhancement of cucurbit germplasm symposium 29 Nov.-DEC.,1989, Charleston, S.C.

  • Hopkins, D. L. 1991. Chemical control of bacterial fruit blotch of watermelon. Proc. Fla. State Hort.

  • Hopkins,D.L., C.M. Thompson, and G.W. Elmstrom. 1993. Resistance of Watermelon Seedlings and Fruit Blotch Bacterium. HortScience 28(2):122-123.

  • Hopkins, D. L. 1993. Field spread of bacterial fruit blotch of watermelon. Phytopathology, 83:466. (Abstract).

  • Hopkins, D.L.,J.D. Cucuzza and J.C. Watterson. 1996. Wet seed treatments for the control of bacterial fruit blotch of watermelon. Plant Dis. 80:529-532.

  • Hopkins, D. L. and C.M. Thompson. 2002. Evaluation of citrullus sp. Germ plasm for resistance to Acidovorax avenae subsp.citrulli.Plant Dis. 86:61-64.

  • Hopkins, D.L. and C.M. Thompson. 2002. Seed transmission of Acidovorax avenae subsp. Citrulli in Cucurbits. HortScience 37(6):924-926.

  • Hopkins, D.L., C.M. Thompson, J. Hilgren and B. Lovic. 2003. Wet Seed Treatment with Peroxyacetic Acid for the Control of Bacterial Fruit Blotch and other Seedborne Diseases of Watermelon. Plant Disease 87:1495-1499.


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