Response of sweet Spanish onion cultivars and numbered hybrids to basal rot and pink root

Plant Disease

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 660-663

  Thornton, M K ^a   Mohan, S K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Allium cepa; disease resistance; Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cepae; Phoma terrestris

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM CEPA; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM SP.; PHOMA; PHOMA TERRESTRIS;

EID: 0029784204     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PD-80-0660     Document Type: Article

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