Environmental factors affecting production, release, and field populations of conidia of Alternaria alternata, the cause of brown spot of citrus

Phytopathology

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1218-1223

  Timmer, L W ^a   Solel, Z ^b   Gottwald, T R ^c   Ibanez A M ^a   Zitko, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWN SPOT DISEASE; CITRUS FRUIT; DISEASE MODEL;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ALTERNATA ALTERNATA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITRUS; CITRUS RETICULATA; FUNGI; PUNCTUM BLANDIANUM;

EID: 0031730855     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO.1998.88.11.1218     Document Type: Article

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