Article
Population genetics and epidemiological effects on Venturia inaequalis from mixed cultivar apple orchards
2019-01-01
Abstract excerpt
The apple industry in the UK produces half a million tonnes of fruit a year; its most economically important disease is apple scab caused by the fungal pathogen Venturia inaequalis. Mixing cultivars with differing resistance to the pathogen, in the same orchard, has been shown to reduce the levels of apple scab. In this study we investigated the population genetics and epidemiology of apple scab in mixed cultivar...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 42100352-7948-5cb1-856b-aabe54d0b43a
- DOI
- 10.48683/1926.00084872
