Control of postharvest pear diseases using natural saprophytic yeast colonists and their combination with a low dosage of thiabendazole

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 51-64

  Chand Goyal, T ^a   Spotts, Robert A ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Blue mold; Botrytis cinerea; Bull's eye rot; Gray mold; Mucor piriformis; Mucor rot; Penicillium expansum; Pezicula malicorticis; Phialophora malorum; Pyrus communis; Side rot

Indexed keywords

PYRUS SPP.;

EID: 0030040557     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0925-5214(95)00031-3     Document Type: Article

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