Field and greenhouse inoculation methods for assessment of sheath blight resistance in rice

Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 221-224

  De Araújo, Leila Garcês ^a   Prabhu, Anne Sitarama ^b   Da Silva, Gisele Barata ^c  

^a Centro Universitário de Goiás Uni ANHANGUERA   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA ARROZ E FEIJÃO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Disease evaluation; Oryza sativa; Resistance; Rhizoctonia solani; Somaclones

Indexed keywords

HYPHOMYCETES; ORYZA SATIVA; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS;

EID: 41149125492     PISSN: 15187853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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