Multiple mid-atlantic field experiments show no economic benefit to fungicide application when fungal disease is absent in winter wheat

Phytopathology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 323-333

  Weisz, Randy ^a   Cowger, Christina ^a   Ambrose, Gaylon ^a   Gardner, Andrew ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGICIDE;

ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ECONOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; RANDOMIZATION; UNITED STATES; WHEAT;

FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; NORTH CAROLINA; PLANT DISEASES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TRITICUM; VIRGINIA;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79952356202     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-03-10-0096     Document Type: Article

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