The search for new natural herbicides - Strategic approaches for discovering fungal phytotoxins

Crop Protection

Volumn 48, Issue , 2013, Pages 41-50

  Varejão, Eduardo V V ^a   Demuner, Antônio J ^a   Barbosa, Luiz C A ^a,b   Barreto, Robert W ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bioassay guided isolation; Herbicides; Phytopathogenic fungi; Phytotoxin; Weeds

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOPESTICIDE; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; FRACTIONATION; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; HOST PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLITE; MONITORING; TOXIN; WEED CONTROL;

FUNGI;

EID: 84875490607     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2013.02.008     Document Type: Review

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