Relationship between apple fruit epicuticular wax and growth of Peltaster fructicola and Leptodontidium elatius, two fungi that cause sooty blotch disease

Plant Disease

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 767-772

  Belding, Robert D ^b   Sutton, Turner B ^c   Blankenship, Sylvia M ^a   Young, Eric ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; APPLE; CULTIVAR; EPICUTICULAR WAX; EPIPHYTE; FRUIT JUICE; FUNGAL GROWTH; MYCELIUM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOOTY BLOTCH; URSOLIC ACID;

LEPTODONTIDIUM ELATIUS; PELTASTER FRUCTICOLA;

EID: 0034048031     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.2000.84.7.767     Document Type: Article

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