Analysis of patterns of pineapple mealybug wilt disease in sri lanka

Plant Disease

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 885-890

  Hughes, G ^a   Samita, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Logistic normal binomial distribution

Indexed keywords

DISEASE DETECTION; MORBIDITY; PINEAPPLE MEALYBUG WILT DISEASE; PLANT DISEASE CONTROL; SRI LANKA;

EID: 0031873785     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.1998.82.8.885     Document Type: Article

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