Analysis of fire blight shoot infection epidemics on apple

Plant Disease

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1349-1356

  Biggs, Alan R ^a   Turechek, William W ^b   Gottwald, Tim R ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Erwinia amylovora

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTIMATION; FUZZY INFERENCE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MAPS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; ORCHARDS;

APPLE CULTIVARS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; FIRE BLIGHTS; HIGH RATES; INFECTION RATES; LOGISTIC MODELS; POWER LAWS; SEASONAL FACTORS; SPATIAL AGGREGATION; SPATIAL POSITIONING;

HEALTH;

ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 51849106133     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-92-9-1349     Document Type: Article

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