Innovative biological approaches to botrytis suppression

Botrytis: Biology, Pathology and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 369-392

  Stotz, Henrik U ^a   Elad, Yigal ^b   Powell, Ann L T ^c   Labavitch, John M ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-2626-3_20     Document Type: Chapter

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