Use of phosphonate to manage foliar potato late blight in developing countries

Plant Disease

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1008-1015

  Kromann, Peter ^a   Pérez, Willmer G ^b   Taipe, Arturo ^a   Schulte Geldermann, Elmar ^c   Sharma, Buddhi Prakash ^d   Andrade Piedra, Jorge L ^a   Forbes, Gregory A ^e  

^a International Potato Centre Quito   (Ecuador)

^b INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Peru)

^c INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Kenya)

^d National Potato Research Programme   (Nepal)

^e CIP   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84863760791     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-12-11-1029-RE     Document Type: Article

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