Parasitic nematode populations in natural fallows and improved cover crops and their effects on subsequent crops in Kenya

Field Crops Research

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-56

  Desaeger, J ^a   Rao, M R ^a  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Bean; Crop rotation; Crotalaria; Improved fallows; Maize; Meloidogyne spp.; Natural fallow; Pratylenchus zeae; Root knot nematode; Sesbania

Indexed keywords

CROP PEST; CROPPING PRACTICE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION;

KENYA;

CROTALARIA AGATIFLORA; HELICOTYLENCHUS; MELOIDOGYNE; MELOIDOGYNE INCOGNITA; MELOIDOGYNE JAVANICA; NEMATODA; PRATYLENCHUS ZEAE; ROTYLENCHULUS VARIABILIS; SCUTELLONEMA; SESBANIA SESBAN;

EID: 0033960632     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4290(99)00071-4     Document Type: Article

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