Progress toward a biological control system for onion white root rot in Tasmania

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 555, Issue , 2001, Pages 123-127

  Metcalf, Dean A ^a   Wilson, Calum R ^a  

^a Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Sclerotium cepivorum; Trichoderma

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642307635     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2001.555.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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