The rust Puccinia abrupta var. partheniicola, a potential biocontrol agent of parthenium weed: Environmental requirements for disease progress

Biological Control

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 141-145

  Fauzi, M T ^a,b   Tomley, A J ^c   Dart, P J ^a   Ogle, H J ^a   Adkins, S W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MATARAM   (Indonesia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological control; Parthenium hysterophorus; Parthenium weed; Puccinia abrupta var. partheniicola

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DISEASE DETECTION; FUNGAL SPORE; INOCULATION; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; PARTHENIUM; PARTHENIUM HYSTEROPHORUS; PUCCINIA; PUCCINIA ABRUPTA; UREDINALES;

EID: 0033015739     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1998.0680     Document Type: Article

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