Relationship between late-season severity of Stewart's bacterial wilt and seed infection in maize

Plant Disease

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 527-530

  Block, Charles C ^a   Hill, J H ^a   McGee, D C ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Erwinia stewartii; Seed pathology; Stewart's disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL WILT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MAIZE; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; PANTOEA STEWARTII; PANTOEA STEWARTII SUBSP. STEWARTII; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0032978407     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.1999.83.6.527     Document Type: Article

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