Identification and pathogenicity assessment of Fusarium spp. sampled from durum wheat fields in Tunisia

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 34, 2011, Pages 6529-6539

  Fakhfakh, M M ^a   Yahyaoui, A ^b   Rezgui, S ^a   Elias, E M ^c   Daaloul, A ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS ICARDA   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^c NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Durum wheat; Fusarium head blight (FHB); Fusarium species; Pathogenicity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR IDENTIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM CULMORUM; FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT; FUSARIUM PSEUDOGRAMINEARUM; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIKELET; TUNISIA; VARIETAS; WHEAT;

FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM CULMORUM; FUSARIUM PSEUDOGRAMINEARUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 79960483895     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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