Significance of lesion and spiral nematodes in Crotalaria-maize rotation in western Kenya

Nematropica

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-39

  Desaeger, J ^a,b   Rao, M R ^a,c  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c 11 ICRISAT Colony Phase I ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Cover crops; Crotalaria; Maize; Pratylenchus; Soil fertility; Spiral nematodes; Tree fallow

Indexed keywords

CROTALARIA; CROTALARIA INCANA; CROTALARIA OCHROLEUCA; CROTALARIA PALLIDA; CROTALARIA PAULINA; HELICOTYLENCHUS; NEMATODA; PRATYLENCHUS; SCUTELLONEMA; SESBANIA; SESBANIA SESBAN; TEPHROSIA; TEPHROSIA VOGELII; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0842323928     PISSN: 00995444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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