Resistance to azole fungicides in Mycosphaerella graminicola: Mechanisms and management

Fungicide Resistance in Crop Protection: Risk and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 64-77

  Cools, Hans J ^a   Fraaije, Bart A ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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