Interrelationship of temperature, flower development and biological control of fire blight

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 590, Issue , 2002, Pages 247-251

  Pusey, P L ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apple; Crab apple; Erwinia amylovora; Flower stigma; Malus x domestica; Pantoea agglomerans; Pseudomonas fluorescens

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745066405     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2002.590.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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