Soft rot disease severity is affected by potato physiology and pectobacterium taxa

Plant Disease

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 232-241

  Del Pilar Marquez Villavicencio, Maria ^a   Groves, Russell L ^a   Charkowski, Amy O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PECTOBACTERIUM; PECTOBACTERIUM ATROSEPTICUM; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM SUBSP. BRASILIENSIS; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM SUBSP. CAROTOVORUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBER (TRUFFLE);

EID: 79952427863     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-07-10-0526     Document Type: Article

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