Agricultural Journal

Year: 2012
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page No. 260 - 263

Developing Culture Media from Yam Species (Dioscoreae rotundata): Technique for Isolation of Tuber-Rot Fungi of Yam

Authors : J.U. Nwawuisi, I.N. Odoh and U.M. Anaele

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