Saving abaca from the onslaught of the bunchy-top disease
Bunchy-top, caused by a virus which is transmitted by the aphid vector Pentalonia nigronervosa Coq., is the most destructive disease of abaca. Epidemics of the disease have devastated many abaca plantations in the Bicol Region of the Philippines for more than a half-century. The disease can be contr...
| Published in: | Philippine Agricultural Scientist, The (Formerly the Philippine Agriculturist) Vol. 83, no. 4 (Oct. 2000 - Dec. 2000), 379-385 |
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| Language: | English |
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2000
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