Culture-independent detection and quantification of Fusarium circinatum in a pine-producing seedling nursery

Southern Forests

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 137-143

  Fourie, Gerda ^a   Wingfield, Michael J ^a   Wingfield, Brenda D ^a   Jones, Nicky B ^b   Morris, Andrew R ^b   Steenkamp, Emma T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Shaw Research Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Fusarium circinatum; Nursery disease; Pitch canker; Quantitative real time PCR; Spore load

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899042812     PISSN: 20702620     EISSN: 20702639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/20702620.2014.899058     Document Type: Article

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