An evaluation of the Wilt-Causing bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum as a potential biological control agent for the alien kahili ginger (Hedychium gardnerianum) in Hawaiian forests

Biological Control

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 89-96

  Anderson, Robert C ^a   Gardner, Donald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Alien weed; Alpinia purpurata; Alpinia zerumbet; Arachis hypogaea; Bacterial wilt; Biological control; Coprosma ochracea; Hedychium coronarium; Hedychium flavescens; Hedychium gardnerianum; Heliconia latispatha; Ilex anomala; Kahili ginger; Metrosideros polymorpha; Musa sapientum; Nicotiana tabacum; Phaeomeria magnifica; Ralstonia (=Pseudomonas) solanacearum; Systemic infection; Understory invasion; Wild ginger; Zingiber officinale; Zingiber zerumbet

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL WILT; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; HEDYCHIUM CORONARIUM; HELICONIA LATISPATHA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INOCULATION; METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA; MUSA SAPIENTUM; PLANT DISEASE; ZINGIBER ZERUMBET;

HEDYCHIUM GARDNERIANUM; PSEUDOMONAS SOLANACEARUM; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; ZINGIBER OFFICINALE;

EID: 0033026889     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1999.0705     Document Type: Article

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