Quambalariaspecies: Increasing threat to eucalypt plantations in Australia

Southern Forests

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-114

  Pegg, G S ^a   Carnegie, A J ^b   Wingfield, M J ^c   Drenth, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Corymbia; Quambalaria shoot blight

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951879616     PISSN: 20702620     EISSN: 20702639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/SF.2009.71.2.4.819     Document Type: Article

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