Climate Change and Plant Disease

Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 232-243

  Hernandez Nopsa, J F ^a,b   Thomas Sharma, S ^a   Garrett, K A ^a,b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PLANT BIOSECURITY COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Bacteria; Climate change; Epidemiology; Fungi; Host pathogen interactions; Phytopathology; Plant disease; Plant pathology; Viruses; Weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939949391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52512-3.00004-8     Document Type: Chapter

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