Prospects for cut-flower postharvest disease management with host defence elicitors

Stewart Postharvest Review

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Dinh, Son Quang ^a   Joyce, Daryl C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Botrytis; Carnation; Ethylene; Freesia; Geraldton waxflower; Rhizobacteria; Rose

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; BOTRYTIS; DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS; ETLINGERA; FREESIA; FUNGI; RHIZOBIALES;

EID: 34248549637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17459656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2212/spr.2007.2.4     Document Type: Review

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