Postharvest fruit rots of apple in Greece: Pathogen incidence and relationships between fruit quality parameters, cultivar susceptibility, and patulin production

Plant Disease

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 666-672

  Konstantinou, S ^a   Karaoglanidis, G S ^a   Bardas, G A ^a   Minas, I S ^a   Doukas, E ^b   Markoglou, A N ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA TENUISSIMA; BOTRYOSPHAERIA OBTUSA; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; BOTRYTIS; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM PROLIFERATUM; GALACTOMYCES GEOTRICHUM; GIBBERELLA AVENACEA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MONILINIA LAXA; MUCOR; PENICILLIUM EXPANSUM;

EID: 79959303353     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-11-10-0856     Document Type: Article

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