Twenty-two watermelon accessions were evaluated in this
study. Part of them are old commercial cultivars and the others
are wild watermelon accessions marked as Plant Introduction (PI)
numbers. These accessions will be called hereafter “exotic watermelon
accessions”. Their names and origin are presented in Table 1.
The same root-dipping method was used for the two Fusarium
pathogens evaluated. Seeds of the tested watermelon accessions