Grafting fruiting vegetables to manage soilborne pathogens, foliar pathogens, arthropods and weeds

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-146

  Louws, Frank J ^a   Rivard, Cary L ^a,b   Kubota, Chieri ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod; Cucurbit; Eggplant; Pepper; Plant pathogens; Tomato

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARTHROPOD; BACTERIAL DISEASE; FARMING SYSTEM; FOLIAGE; FRUIT; FRUITING; FUNGAL DISEASE; HERB; HOST SPECIFICITY; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; NEMATODE; PATHOGENICITY; PEST SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; ROOTSTOCK; SELECTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETABLE; VIRAL DISEASE; WEED;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUSARIUM; HEXAPODA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MELOIDOGYNE; MELOIDOGYNE JAVANICA; MONOSPORASCUS; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA; PYRENOCHAETA; RALSTONIA; SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 78649783155     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2010.09.023     Document Type: Review

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