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The sterilized environment prompted the maize stalk rot pathogen Erwinia carotovora f. sp. zeae Sabet to retain its infectivity for a longer period than the unsterilized one. The survival as well as infectivity potency of the pathogen present in the soil having naturally-infested or artificially-inoculated host plant as debris was superior to that in the soil or even the soil containing maize stalk tissue.
‘Maize-potato-maize’ cropping pattern effected a considerable increase in the disease incidence due to maintainance of continuity of life of the pathogen in the intervening potato crop. re]19741113
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Prasad, M., Sinha, S.K. Survival and retention of infectivity of bacterial stalk rot pathogen of maize and its perpetuation on varied cropping pattern. Plant Soil 47, 245–248 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00010384
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