Managemant of Botrytis leaf blight of onion: The Québec experience of 20 tears of continual improvement

Plant Disease

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 504-514

  Carisse, Odile ^a   Tremblay, David Mathieu ^a   McDonald, Mary Ruth ^b   Brodeur, Luc ^c   McRoberts, Neil ^d  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c Compagnie de recherches Phytodata ^*  (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM CEPA; BOTRYTIS;

EID: 79955394915     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-11-10-0797     Document Type: Article

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