Soil management effects on entomopathogenic fungi during the transition to organic agriculture in a feed grain rotation

Biological Control

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 435-443

  Jabbour, Randa ^a   Barbercheck, Mary E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation tillage; Cover cropping; Entomopathogenic fungi; Metarhizium anisopliae; Organic agriculture

Indexed keywords

BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; GLYCINE MAX; ISARIA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 70350211427     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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