Use of household disinfectants to suppress Pratylenchus coffeae and dry rot of yellow yam (Dioscorea cayenensis)

Tropical Agriculture

Volumn 75, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 49-52

  Hutton, Dave G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Household disinfectants; Nematicides; Sprouting; Tuber yields; Yam

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTROL; PEST CONTROL; YAM;

JAMAICA;

DIOSCOREA ALATA; DIOSCOREA CAYENENSIS; NEMATODA; PRATYLENCHUS COFFEAE;

EID: 0032287101     PISSN: 00413216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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