Disease incidence and severity on beans in alleys between Leucaena hedgerows in Kenya

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 85-101

  Koech, E K ^a   Whitbread, R ^b  

^a MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alley farming; Colletotrichum lindemuthianum; Hedgerow intercropping; Leucaena leucocephala; Microclimate; Phaeoisaropsis griseola

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEDGEROW; LEGUME;

KENYA;

EID: 0034114677     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006311421506     Document Type: Article

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