Fusarium species from the cassava root rot complex in West Africa

Phytopathology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 673-676

  Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit ^a   Mwangi, Maina ^a   Aigbe, Sylvester O ^a   Leslie, John F ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMILLARIA; BOTRYODIPLODIA THEOBROMAE; CHROMOLAENA; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM SOLANI; MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 33744743777     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-96-0673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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