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Colonization of Cucumber Buds by Pseudomonas lachrymans in Relation to Leaf Symptoms. A. de Lange, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio 44691; Curt Leben, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio 44691. Phytopathology 60:1865. DOI: 10.1094/Phyto-60-1865.

Cucumber seedlings grown at high relative humidity and inoculated with Pseudomonas lachrymans on the buds, showed angular leaf spot symptoms on four successive unfurling leaves. The pathogen multiplied in some buds and was isolated from the buds of 48 out of 112 plants 19 days after inoculation.