Resurgence of Pseudoperonospora cubensis: The Causal Agent of Cucurbit Downy Mildew

Yigal Cohen1, Kyle M Van den Langenberg1, Todd C Wehner1

  • 1First author: Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52100, Israel; second and third authors: Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695; fourth and sixth authors: Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695; fifth author: Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824-1312; seventh author: Palacký University, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, 78371 Olomouc, Czech Republic; eighth and ninth authors: Syngenta Crop Protection AG, CH-4432 Stein, Switzerland; and ninth author: Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Botany, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.

Phytopathology
|April 7, 2015
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