Boxwood blight: A new scourge, a new paradigm for collaborative research

Outlooks on Pest Management

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 230-236

  Palmer, Cristi L ^a   Shishkoff, Nina ^b  

^a Rutgers University s   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Boxwood blight; Buxus; Calonectria pseudonaviculata; Cylindrocladium buxicola; Cylindrocladium pseudonaviculatum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903545158     PISSN: 17431026     EISSN: 17431034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1564/v25_jun_10     Document Type: Article

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