Identification and toxicity of Alternaria brassicicola, the causal agent of dark leaf spot disease of Brassica species grown in Thailand

Plant Pathology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 749-755

  Pattanamahakul, P ^a   Strange, R N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternaria brassicicola; Brassica; Dark leaf spot disease; ITS regions; Thailand; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CAULIFLOWER; CULTURE FILTRATE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DARK LEAF SPOT; DISEASE DETECTION; FUNGAL SPORE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; INTERGENIC TRANSCRIBED SPACER; KALE; KOCH POSTULATE; MYCOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT; PATHOGENICITY; RIBOSOMAL DNA; THAILAND; TOXICITY;

FUNGAL DISEASE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; TOXICITY;

THAILAND;

ALTERNARIA BRASSICICOLA; BRASSICA;

EID: 0033454656     PISSN: 00320862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3059.1999.00406.x     Document Type: Article

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