Optimum plot size for banana trials

HortScience

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 130-132

  Nokoe, Sagary ^a   Ortiz, Rodomiro ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Black sigatoka disease; Disease resistance; Growth; Musa spp.; Mycosphaerella fijiensis; Statistics; Yield

Indexed keywords

MUSA; MYCOSPHAERELLA FIJIENSIS;

EID: 0031918655     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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