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Pests and diseases of cucumber in Greece and Europe: symptom description, epidemiology and quarantine status

Pests and diseases of cucumber in Greece and Europe: symptom description, epidemiology and quarantine status

Downy mildew, powdery mildew with two causal agents and opposite temperature optima, scab, anthracnose, Didymella with a one-hour free-water limit, Botrytis, Sclerotinia. The two fusarium diseases of cucumber: f.sp. radicis-cucumerinum, described in Heraklion with an optimum of 17 degrees and stopping at 32, and fusarium wilt, which starts where that one stops. Pythium, Phytophthora and angular leaf spot. The aphid-borne and the whitefly-borne viruses, with the three criniviruses that cannot be separated without a laboratory, CYSDV in 49.9% of Greek samples, CVYV absent from Greece but present in Cyprus and Türkiye, and ToLCNDV as the only Union quarantine pest, with the Greek chronology from Ileia in 2018. CGMMV, the virus that needs no insect and that stayed infective in Greek soil at 4 degrees for ten months. Whiteflies, spider mite, thrips, aphids, leafminers, lepidoptera and nematodes, with the Greek resistance data, the Ierapetra nematode populations that overcome the Mi gene, and an explicit statement for every threshold that does not exist. A table of temperature optima by season of the Greek greenhouse. Seven photographs, eighty-four references, each declared as full text or abstract only.

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