Chitosan treatment: An emerging strategy for enhancing resistance of greenhouse tomato plants to infection by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. radicis-lycopersici

Biocontrol Science and Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 111-124

  Lafontaine, Pierre J ^a   Benhamou, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Defense mechanisms; Disease incidence; Elicitor; Fruit yield; Plant disease resistance; Soil borne pathogens; Structural barriers; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000599615     PISSN: 09583157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09583159650039575     Document Type: Article

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