Using predictions based on geostatistics to monitor trends in Aspergillus flavus strain composition

Phytopathology

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 761-769

  Orum, Thomas V ^a   Bigelow, Donna M ^a   Cotty, Peter J ^b   Nelson, Merritt R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotton; Geographic information systems; GIS

Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODEL; GEOSTATISTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; FUNGI; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; MICROPUS; YUMA;

EID: 0032817526     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO.1999.89.9.761     Document Type: Article

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