Choanephora cucurbitarum
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Choanephora cucurbitarum symptoms on winter squash (Cucurbita moschata) (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): Howard F. Schwartz, Colorado State University
Source: IPM Images
Author(s): Howard F. Schwartz, Colorado State University
Source: IPM Images
Choanephora cucurbitarum (Berk. & Ravenel) Thaxt.
The fungus is widely distributed in warmer region and causes diseases like Choanephora fruit rot or flower blight on various hosts. Typical symptoms include a soft rot with the fungus growing on the effected surface, forming spherical sporangia. Sporangiospores are elongated, brownish and striate with a size of around 10 x 20 µm.
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- Other images of Choanephora cucurbitarum (Wikimedia Commons - click to enlarge)
symptoms
hyphae with sporangia
sporangia
