Isolation and preliminary evaluation of mycoparasites as biocontrol agents of crown rot of banana

Biological Control

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 111-119

  Krauss, Ulrike ^a,b   Bidwell, Rachel ^a   Ince, John ^a  

^a Research and Development Division   (India)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AGRARIA DE LA SELVA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Antagonism; Banana; Biological control; Botryodiplodia theobromae; Colletotrichum musae; Crown rot; Fusarium moniliforme; Fusarium pallidoroseum; Gliocladium; Musa sp.; Mycoparasites; Nigrospora sphaerica; Postharvest; Pythium; Trichoderma; Verticillium

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CROWN ROT DISEASE;

BOTRYODIPLODIA THEOBROMAE; COLLETOTRICHUM MUSAE; FUSARIUM MONILIFORME; FUSARIUM PALLIDOROSEUM; GLIOCLADIUM; NIGROSPORA SPHAERICA; PYTHIUM; TRICHODERMA; VERTICILLIUM;

EID: 0031754585     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1998.0651     Document Type: Article

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