Foliar resistance to Phytophthora palmivora as an indicator of pod resistance in Theobroma cacao

Plant Disease

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 619-624

  Iwaro, A D ^a   Sreenivasan, T N ^a   Umaharan, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Black pod; Screening methods

Indexed keywords

PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA PALMIVORA; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 0030924244     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.1997.81.6.619     Document Type: Article

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