A Bacterial Disease Causing Severe Damage to Susceptible Plant Introductions of Muskmelon. Grover Sowell, Jr.,, Research Plant Pathologist, Agricultural Research, Science and Education Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Experiment, GA 30212. Plant Dis. 65:609-610 . . This article is in the public domain and not copyrightable. It may be freely reprinted with customary crediting of the source. The American Phytopathological Society, 1981. DOI: 10.1094/PD-65-609.

An unidentified bacterium caused leaf spot on susceptible plant introductions of muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) and also on Curcurbita pepo ‘Early Yellow Summer Crookneck,’ Cucumis sativus ‘Explorer,’ and Citrullus lanatus ‘Charleston Gray.’