Quantifying airborne dispersal routes of pathogens over continents to safeguard global wheat supply

Nature Plants

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 780-786

  Meyer, M ^a   Cox, J A ^a   Hitchings, M D T ^a   Burgin, L ^b   Hort, M C ^b   Hodson, D P ^c   Gilligan, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Atmospheric Dispersion and Air Quality   (United Kingdom)

^c International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIDIOMYCETES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNGUS SPORE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; WHEAT;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLANT DISEASES; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRITICUM;

EID: 85029798148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-017-0017-5     Document Type: Article

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