Causal agents of root rot and the effect of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in seedlings of rhodiola rosea in Alberta, Canada

Plant Pathology Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 120-126

  Hwang, S F ^a   Ahmed, H U ^a   Ampong Nyarko, K ^a   Strelkov, S E ^b   Howard, R J ^a   Turnbull, G D ^a  

^a ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological control; Pathogenicity; Rhodiola rosea; Root rot; Vesicular arbuscular mycorhizal fungi

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM SP.; HYPHOMYCETES; PYTHIUM; RHIZOCTONIA; RHODIOLA; RHODIOLA ROSEA;

EID: 70349983109     PISSN: 15982254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/ppj.2009.120.126     Document Type: Article

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