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Since the early 1990’s, bacterial blight has emerged as an important disease of cantaloupe in France, particularly in the south-west but has caused epidemics in all the production regions of this country. The pathogen is a complex composed of strains identified as Pseudomonas syringae pv. aptata (70% of the strains) and the remaining resembling P. viridiflava (2%), P. s. pv. lachrymans (1%) or P. syringae in general but with no correspondence to a known pathovar. To investigate the epidemiology of this disease and to develop disease control strategies, we have attempted to identify sources of inoculum in the field, factors contributing to the explosive development of the disease, resistance of the bacterium to copper pesticides, and sources of disease resistance in Cucumis melo. Based on our observations and on the description of possible outbreaks of this disease elsewhere in the world, we report here a hypothetical scenario of the critical factors triggering disease development and of the potential efficiency of different control strategies.
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Riffaud, C.MH., Glaux, C., Guilbaud, C., Prior, P., Morris, C.E., Dominguez, H. (2003). Epidemiological Clues for Developing Methods of Control of Bacterial Blight of Cantaloupe Caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. aptata . In: Iacobellis, N.S., et al. Pseudomonas syringae and related pathogens. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0133-4_1
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