Vegetable and tuber crop applications

Nematodes as Biocontrol Agent

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 255-264

  Bélair, Guy ^a   Wright, Denis J ^b   Curto, Giovanna ^c  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Plant Protection Service   (Italy)

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