Rainfall thresholds as support for timing fungicide applications in the control of potato late blight in ecuador and peru

Plant Disease

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 142-148

  Kromann, Peter ^a,b   Taipe, Arturo ^c   Perez, Willmer G ^d   Forbes, Gregory A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b International Potato Centre Quito   (Ecuador)

^c CIP   (Ecuador)

^d INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Peru)

Author keywords

Knapsack sprayer; Mancozeb

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FUNGICIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); TIME MEASUREMENT;

ECUADOR; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; FUNGICIDE APPLICATIONS; INTEGRATED MANAGEMENTS; KNAPSACK SPRAYER; LATE BLIGHTS; LOW THRESHOLDS; MANCOZEB; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; POTATO GENOTYPES; RESISTANT CULTIVARS; SIMILAR NUMBERS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS;

PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 60549111469     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-93-2-0142     Document Type: Article

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