Colletotrichum gloeosporioides as the cause of stem tip dieback of cassava

Plant Pathology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 864-871

  Moses, E ^a   Nash, C ^b   Strange, R N ^a   Bailey, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLETOTRICHUM GLOEOSPORIOIDES; EUPHORBIACEAE; MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

CASSAVA; CAUSAL AGENT; FUNGAL PATHOGEN; STEM-TIP DIEBACK;

GHANA;

EID: 0030303077     PISSN: 00320862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3059.1996.tb02897.x     Document Type: Article

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