Influence of temperature on pathogenicity of Pythium volutum toward creeping bentgrass

Plant Disease

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1669-1673

  Kerns, James P ^a   Tredway, L P ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FUNGICIDES; GROWTH (MATERIALS); PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS);

AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA; CREEPING BENTGRASSES; DISEASE SEVERITIES; DROUGHT STRESSES; FOLIAR SYMPTOMS; FUNGICIDE APPLICATIONS; GROWTH CHAMBERS; IN VITRO; INOCULATED PLANTS; MYCELIAL GROWTHS; NORTH CAROLINA; OPTIMAL TEMPERATURES; PYTHIUM; ROOT INFECTIONS; ROOT MASSES; SOIL TEMPERATURES; SPRING IN; TEMPERATURE TREATMENTS;

TEMPERATURE;

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA; PYTHIUM; PYTHIUM VOLUTUM;

EID: 57549108345     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-92-12-1669     Document Type: Article

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