Alternatives to conventional fungicides for the control of citrus postharvest green and blue moulds

Stewart Postharvest Review

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Palou, Lluís ^a   Smilanick, Joseph L ^b   Droby, Samir ^c  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS IVIA   (Spain)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Integrated disease management; Low toxicity chemical control; P. Italicum; Penicillium digitatum; Physical control

Indexed keywords

CITRUS; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM DIGITATUM; PENICILLIUM ITALICUM;

EID: 43249115462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17459656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2212/spr.2008.2.2     Document Type: Review

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