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Performance of 10 Hevea brasiliensis clones in Ecuador, under South American Leaf Blight escape conditions
2016-12-01
Abstract excerpt
Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) growing in Latin America is severely limited by South American Leaf Blight, a disease caused by the Ascomycete fungus Microcyclus ulei, recently renamed Pseudocercospora ulei. Sustainable ways of controlling it may be genetic, using resistant cultivars, or may consist in seeking so-called “escape zones”, where disease incidence is low thanks to climatic conditions unsuitable for the fun...
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- Literature Corpus work
- bd84736b-90ec-526b-9157-1111d05842fb
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.indcrop.2016.09.035
