Disease assessment concepts and the advancements made in improving the accuracy and precision of plant disease data

Plant disease epidemiology: facing challenges of the 21st Century: Under the aegis of an International Plant Disease Epidemiology Workshop held at Landernau, France, 10-15th April, 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 95-103

  Nutter Jr , Forrest W ^a   Esker, Paul D ^a   Coelho Netto, Rosalee A ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

phytopathometry

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EID: 84900162700     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5020-8_7     Document Type: Chapter

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