Crown rot of bananas: Preharvest factors involved in postharvest disease development and integrated control methods

Plant Disease

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 648-658

  Lassois, Ludivine ^a   Jijakli, M Haïssam ^a   Chillet, Marc ^b,c   De Bellaire, Luc De Lapeyre ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UMR QUALISUD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRUITS; FUNGICIDES; INTEGRATED CONTROL; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

BROAD SPECTRUM; CHEMICAL CONTROLS; CONTROL METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL TRIALS; FRUIT QUALITY; INTEGRATED CONTROL STRATEGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS; POSTHARVEST DISEASE;

DISEASE CONTROL;

EID: 75649121688     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-94-6-0648     Document Type: Article

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