Populations of Botrytis cinerea and Penicillium spp. on pear fruit, and in orchards and packinghouses, and their relationship to postharvest decay

Plant Disease

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 639-644

  Lennox, Cheryl L ^a   Spotts, Robert A ^b   Cervantes, Louis A ^b  

^a PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD STORAGE; DECAY (ORGANIC); ORCHARDS; SOILS;

PEAR FRUITS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; BOTRYTIS; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 0038444054     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.2003.87.6.639     Document Type: Article

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