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Taro leaf blight hits Western Samoa

author(s) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
from Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
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  • Polynesia
  • Oceania
  • World
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CTA. 1994. Taro leaf blight hits Western Samoa . Spore 49. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

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Abstract

Taro, Colocasia esculenta, is one of the main staple food crops of Pacific Island countries and is the principal crop of Western Samoa but the devastating fungal disease, taro leaf blight (Phytophthora colocasiae), has now hit Western Samoa. The...

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