Proposals for bacterial and fungal biocontrol agents

Regulation of Biological Control Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 267-288

  Strauch, Olaf ^a   Strasser, Hermann ^b   Hauschild, Rüdiger ^c   Ehlers, Ralf Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c GAB Consulting GmbH   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3664-3_13     Document Type: Chapter

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