Integrated management of Sclerotinia blight in peanut: Utilizing canopy morphology, mechanical pruning, and fungicide timing

Plant Disease

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1312-1318

  Butzler, Thomas M ^a   Bailey, Jack ^a   Beute, Marvin K ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLIGHT; DISEASE CONTROL; PEANUT; SCLEROTINIA MINOR;

SCLEROTINIA MINOR;

EID: 0031735428     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.1998.82.12.1312     Document Type: Article

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