Managing the biological environment to promote and sustain crop productivity and quality

Food Security

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 169-186

  Beed, Fen D ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE IITA   (Tanzania)

^b IITA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aflatoxin; Crop disease; Diagnostics; Ecological interactions; Productivity and quality; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARABLE LAND; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BIOFUEL; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CARBON EMISSION; CASSAVA; CROP PRODUCTION; EPIDEMIC; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SECURITY; HEALTH CARE; MAIZE; POPULATION GROWTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUST DISEASE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOXIN; VIRAL DISEASE; WHEAT;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MANIHOT ESCULENTA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84899419694     PISSN: 18764517     EISSN: 18764525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12571-014-0333-9     Document Type: Article

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