The significance of sweet potato feathery mottle virus in subsistence sweet potato production in Africa

Plant Disease

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 4-15

  Karyeija, R F ^a   Gibson, R W ^b,e   Valkonen, J P T ^c,d  

^a Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute   (Uganda)

^b Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Production Research Institute Uganda   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IPOMOEA BATATAS; SWEET POTATO FEATHERY MOTTLE VIRUS;

EID: 0031974867     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.1998.82.1.4     Document Type: Short Survey

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