Reaction of four Musa genotypes at three temperatures to isolates of Mycosphaerella fijiensis from different geographical regions

Plant Disease

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1139-1142

  Romero, Ronald A ^a,b   Sutton, Turner B ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Box 6504 1000 ^*  (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSA; MYCOSPHAERELLA FIJIENSIS;

EID: 0030766808     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.1997.81.10.1139     Document Type: Article

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