Efficacy of biocontrol yeasts combined with calcium silicate or sulphur for controlling durum wheat powdery mildew and increasing grain yield components

Field Crops Research

Volumn 134, Issue , 2012, Pages 36-46

  De Curtis, Filippo ^a   De Cicco, Vincenzo ^a   Lima, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biocontrol agents (BCAs); Biological and integrated control; Calcium silicate; Durum wheat (Triticum durum L.); Grain yield components; Powdery mildew; Sulphur

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; CROP YIELD; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNGAL DISEASE; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; PHENOLOGY; SULFUR; WHEAT; YEAST;

AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; BLUMERIA GRAMINIS F. SP. TRITICI; CRYPTOCOCCUS LAURENTII; ERYSIPHALES; FUNGI; RHODOSPORIDIUM; RHODOSPORIDIUM KRATOCHVILOVAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 84861333902     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2012.04.014     Document Type: Article

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