Mushroom applications

Nematodes as Biocontrol Agent

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 191-213

  Jess, Stephen ^a,b   Schweizer, Heinrich ^b   Kilpatrick, Mairead ^a  

^a AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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