Studies on the potential use of Pasteuria penetrans as a biocontrol agent of root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.)

Plant Pathology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 44-55

  Tzortzakakis, E A ^a,b   Channer, A G D R ^a   Gowen, S R ^a   Ahmed, R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELOIDOGYNE; PASTEURIA PENETRANS; NEMATODA;

BACTERIAL PARASITE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; POTENTIAL BIOCONTROL AGENT; ROOT-KNOT NEMATODE;

EID: 0030618636     PISSN: 00320862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3059.1997.d01-211.x     Document Type: Article

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