Inoculation of cucumber roots with zoospores of mycoparasitic and plant pathogenic Pythium species: Differential zoospore accumulation, colonization ability and plant growth response

European Journal of Plant Pathology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-76

  Wulff, E G ^a   Pham, A T H ^a   Cherif M ^b   Rey, P ^b   Tirilly, Y ^b   Hockenhull, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Hydroponics; Pythium 'group F'; Pythium aphanidermatum; Pythium oligandrum; Pythium periplocum

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL SPORE; GROWTH REGULATION; INOCULATION; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT GROWTH; ROOTING;

CUCUMBER; FUNGAL PATHOGEN; INOCULATION; ROOT COLONIZATION;

CUCUMIS SATIVUS; PYTHIUM; PYTHIUM APHANIDERMATUM; PYTHIUM OLIGANDRUM; PYTHIUM PERIPLOCUM;

EID: 0031970607     PISSN: 09291873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008662927507     Document Type: Article

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