Composted chicken manure as a medium for the production and delivery of Trichoderma virens for weed control

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1394-1397

  Héraux, Farah M G ^a   Hallett, Steven G ^a   Ragothama, K G ^a   Weller, Stephen C ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioherbicide; Biological control; CCM; Integrated weed management; Trichoderma virens; Viridiol

Indexed keywords

COMPOSTING; FUNGI; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HERBICIDES; MANURES; NUTRITION;

BIOHERBICIDES; COMPOSTED CHICKEN MANURE; REDROOT PIGWEED; SOILBORNE FUNGUS; VIRIDIOL;

WEED CONTROL;

FUNGI; MANURE; NUTRIENTS; SUCROSE; VIRIAL COEFFICIENTS; WEED CONTROL;

AMARANTHUS; AMARANTHUS RETROFLEXUS; FUNGI; GLIOCLADIUM; HYPOCREA VIRENS; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 22444448620     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.5.1394     Document Type: Article

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