Biological Control of Chestnut Blight with Hypovirulence: A critical analysis

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 42, Issue , 2004, Pages 311-338

  Milgroom, Michael G ^a   Cortesi, Paolo ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Castanea spp.; CHV; Cryphonectria hypovirus; Cryphonectria parasitica

Indexed keywords

AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM; ANIMAL; ASCOMYCETES; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE;

AESCULUS; ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; RNA VIRUSES; VIRULENCE;

AESCULUS; AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM; ANIMALIA; ASCOMYCOTA; CASTANEA; CRYPHONECTRIA; CRYPHONECTRIA HYPOVIRUS; CRYPHONECTRIA PARASITICA; FUNGI; HYPOVIRIDAE; HYPOVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; TEREBRANTIA;

EID: 4744369457     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.42.040803.140325     Document Type: Review

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