Tackling agriculturally relevant diseases in the staple crop cassava (Manihot esculenta)

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2017, Pages 50-58

  McCallum, Emily J ^a   Anjanappa, Ravi B ^a   Gruissem, Wilhelm ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENETICS; MANIHOT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

AFRICA; AGRICULTURE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; MANIHOT; PLANT DISEASES;

EID: 85018975483     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2017.04.008     Document Type: Review

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