Cytological investigations on colonization of sorghum roots by the mycoherbicide Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. strigae and its implications for Striga control using a seed treatment delivery system

Biological Control

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 249-257

  Elzein, Abuelgasim ^a,b   Heller, Annerose ^a   Ndambi, Beninweck ^a   De Mol, Michiel ^a   Kroschel, Jürgen ^c   Cadisch, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^c INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Peru)

Author keywords

Biocontrol efficacy; Electron microscopy; Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. strigae; Light microscopy; Mycoherbicide; Root colonization; Seed coating; Sorghum bicolor; Striga hermonthica

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; SORGHUM BICOLOR; STRIGA; STRIGA HERMONTHICA;

EID: 77950304191     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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