Evaluation of an aeroponics system to screen maize genotypes for resistance to Fusarium graminearum seedling blight

Plant Disease

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 175-179

  Du Toit, Lindsey J ^a   Walker Kirby, H ^a   Pedersen, Wayne L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 1842415447     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.1997.81.2.175     Document Type: Article

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