Assessment of banana planting practices and cultivar tolerance in relation to management of soilborne Xanthomonas campestris pv musacearum

Crop Protection

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1203-1208

  Mwangi, M ^a   Bandyopadhyay, R ^b   Ragama, P ^a   Tushemereirwe, W K ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Uganda)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^c Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Banana; Cultivars; Paring; Soilborne; Wilt; Xanthomonas

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BACTERIUM; CULTIVAR; FRUIT; TOLERANCE; WILT;

XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 34250778200     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2006.10.017     Document Type: Article

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