Necrotrophic fungi associated with epidermal microcracking caused by chilling injury in pickling cucumber fruit

Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 593-598

  Martínez, Juan Antonio ^a   Fernández Trujillo, Juan Pablo ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b UPCT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alternaria alternata; Botrytis cinerea; Cryoscanning electron microscopy; Cucumis sativus; Pitting; Stemphylium herbarum

Indexed keywords

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; FUNGI; PLEOSPORA HERBARUM;

EID: 34249903681     PISSN: 0100204X     EISSN: 16783921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-204X2007000400019     Document Type: Article

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