Serratia marcescens, a phloem-colonizing, squash bug-transmitted bacterium: Causal agent of cucurbit yellow vine disease

Plant Disease

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 937-944

  Bruton, B D ^a   Mitchell, F ^b   Fletcher, J ^c   Pair, S D ^d   Wayadande, A ^c   Melcher, U ^c   Brady, J ^f   Bextine, B ^c   Popham, T W ^e  

^a U States Dept Agric Agric R   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e USDA ARS   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Coreidae; Heteroptera; Vine decline

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DISEASE CONTROL; FRUITS; GREENHOUSES; INSECT CONTROL;

PATHOGENS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANASA TRISTIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITRULLUS; CITRULLUS LANATAS; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; COREIDAE; CUCUMIS MELO; CUCURBITA PEPO; HETEROPTERA; INSECTA; LURIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PEPO; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 0042125043     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.2003.87.8.937     Document Type: Article

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