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Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 130289, 8 pages
Fungicide: Modes of Action and Possible Impact on Nontarget Microorganisms
1Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre, AAFC, Swift Current, SK, Canada S9H 3X2
2Department of Food and Bioproducts Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5N8
Received 26 July 2011; Accepted 5 September 2011
Academic Editors: K. Muylaert and H. Sanderson
Copyright © 2011 Chao Yang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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