Analytical models of weed biocontrol with sterilizing fungi: The consequences of differences in weed and pathogen life-histories

Plant Pathology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 306-319

  Smith, M C ^a   Holt, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; MODELLING; SEED SET; STERILIZING FUNGI; WEED CONTROL;

EID: 0030619795     PISSN: 00320862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3059.1997.d01-26.x     Document Type: Article

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