Influence of temperature on Pythium splendens - Induced root disease on carambola, Averrhoa carambola

Mycopathologia

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 225-231

  Ploetz, Randy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Averrhoa carambola; Biomass; Carambola; Pythium splendens; Root colonization; Root necrosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FRUIT; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT ROOT; PYTHIUM; TEMPERATURE;

FRUIT; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; PYTHIUM; TEMPERATURE;

ANNONA CHERIMOLA X ANNONA SQUAMOSA; AVERRHOA CARAMBOLA; FUNGI; OOMYCETES; PASSIFLORA EDULIS; PYTHIUM; PYTHIUM SPLENDENS;

EID: 1842759782     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MYCO.0000020600.61249.06     Document Type: Article

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