Amino acids, carbohydrates and heritability of resistance in the Theobroma cacao/Phythophthora megakarya interaction

Phytopathologia Mediterranea

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 370-383

  Djocgoue, Pierre F ^a,b   Mbouobda, Hermann D ^a   Boudjeko, Thaddée ^b   Effa, Pierre O ^a,b   Omokolo, Denis N ^a  

^a Higher Teacher's Training College   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Black pod; Cocoa; Metabolites; Progenies

Indexed keywords

THEOBROMA; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84857844289     PISSN: 00319465     EISSN: 15932095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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