Efficacy of Calcium Salts on Controlling Phytophthora pistaciae, the Cause of Pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) Gummosis

Subject Areas : Microbiology

Hossein Najarpour ¹ , Fatemeh Hasanzadeh Davarani ² , Mohammad Moradi ³

1 - Department of Plant Pathology, Rafsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rafsanjan, Iran
2 - Department of Plant Pathology, Rafsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rafsanjan, Iran
3 - Pistachio Research Center, Plant Protection, Rafsanjan, Iran

Received: 2017-10-24 Accepted : 2018-08-26 Published : 2018-12-01

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