The impact of diseases on cacao production: A global overview

Cacao Diseases: A History of Old Enemies and New Encounters

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 33-59

  Ploetz, Randy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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