Rhizoctonia web blight development on container-grown azalea in relation to time and environmental factors

Plant Disease

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 891-897

  Copes, Warren E ^a   Scherm, Harald ^b  

^a USDA Small Fruit Research Station   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALABAMA; BINUCLEATE RHIZOCTONIAS; CART MODELS; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; EXPONENTIAL INCREASE; HEURISTIC APPROACH; MISSISSIPPI; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MOVING AVERAGES; PROGRESS CURVES; RHIZOCTONIA WEB BLIGHT; TEMPERATURE VARIABLES; VALIDATION DATA; VAPOR PRESSURE DEFICIT;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); MOISTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY);

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

HYPHOMYCETES; RHIZOCTONIA; RHODODENDRON;

EID: 77954526115     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-94-7-0891     Document Type: Article

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