An evaluation of gains in breeding for resistance to the cocoa swollen shoot virus disease in Ghana

Crop Protection

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 24-31

  Padi, Francis Kwame ^a   Domfeh, Owusu ^a   Takrama, Jemmy ^a   Opoku, StephenYaw ^a  

^a New Tafo   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Cocoa; Cocoa swollen shoot virus; CSSV; Mealybug; West Africa

Indexed keywords

DISEASE RESISTANCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SPREAD; GENE EXPRESSION; GERMPLASM; INOCULATION; INSECT; LEGUME; POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; VIRAL DISEASE;

GHANA;

EID: 84878183808     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2013.04.007     Document Type: Article

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