Practical Plant Nematology: A field and laboratory guide
authored by D.L. Coyne, J.M. Nicol and B. Claudius-Cole
(This publication was distributed at the 2009 ONTA Annual Meeting. The author’s have given permission for it to be posted online for educational and/or instructional use. All files are in PDF format.)
This guide has been produced by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) as part of the strategy of the Systemwide Program on Integrated Pest Management (SP-IPM) to improve the quality and usefulness of pest management research. IITA, CIMMYT and the SP-IPM are supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR; www.cgiar.org). For the first print run, contributions were made by ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) for printing, while Syngenta fully funded this print run.
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