Preservation, mass production and storage of Stagonospora convolvuli, a bioherbicide candidate for field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)

BioControl

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 437-447

  Pfirter, H A ^a   Guntli, D ^a   Ruess, M ^a   Defago G ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biological control; Kaolin; Mycoherbicide; Preservation; Weed

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004652998     PISSN: 13866141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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