Assessment of resistance to witches'-broom disease in clonal and segregating populations of Theobroma cacao

Plant Disease

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 797-803

  Surujdeo Maharaj, S ^a   Umaharan, P ^a   Butler, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Cocoa; Parent offspring regression; Resistance screening

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

INCUBATION PERIOD; PLANT MEASUREMENT;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CORRELATION; DISEASES; GENOTYPES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PLANTS; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY;

CRINIPELLIS; CRINIPELLIS PERNICIOSA; FUNGI; THEOBROMA; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 4043140286     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS.2004.88.8.797     Document Type: Article

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