Plant biotechnology and control

Root-knot Nematodes

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 338-362

  Atkinson, Howard J ^a   Urwin, Peter E ^a   Hussey, Richard S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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