A new view of sooty blotch and flyspeck

Plant Disease

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 368-383

  Gleason, Mark L ^a   Batzer, Jean C ^a   Sun, Guangyu ^b   Zhang, Rong ^b   Arias, Maria M Díaz ^a   Sutton, Turner B ^c   Crous, Pedro W ^d   Ivanović, Milan ^e   McManus, Patricia S ^f   Cooley, Daniel R ^g   Mayr, Ulrich ^h   Weber, Roland W S ⁱ   Yoder, Keith S ^j   del Ponte, Emerson M ^k   Biggs, Alan R ^l   Oertel, Bernhard ^m  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^e Faculty of Agriculture   (Serbia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^h Kompetenzzentrum Obstbau Bodensee Bavendorf   (Germany)

ⁱ OVB Jork ^*  (Germany)

^j VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^l WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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EID: 79955424237     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-08-10-0590     Document Type: Article

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