Nested PCR assays for detection of Monilinia fructicola in stone fruit orchards and Botryosphaeria dothidea from pistachios in California

Journal of Phytopathology

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 312-322

  Ma, Z ^a   Luo, Y ^a   Michailides, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown rot of stone fruit; Panicle and shoot blight of pistachio

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; FUNGAL DISEASE; ORCHARD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOTRYOSPHAERIA; BOTRYOSPHAERIA DOTHIDEA; DOTHIDEA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MONILINIA; MONILINIA FRUCTICOLA; PISTACIA VERA;

EID: 7444272746     PISSN: 09311785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0434.2003.00725.x     Document Type: Article

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