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Economic importance and losses, symptoms/damage, pre-disposing factors, epidemiology, survival and spread, and biointensive integrated management of insect and mite pests, fungal, bacterial, viral/mycoplasma diseases, nematode pests, and disease complexes of tuber crops (sweet potato, elephant foot yam, and colocasia) using physical methods, cultural methods, botanical pesticides, chemical pesticides, bioagents, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and host resistance are discussed.
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Palaniswami, M. S. (2002). Advances in integrated approaches for sweet potato weevil management. Proceedings of the International Conference on Vegetables (pp. 304–308). Bangalore: Dr. Prem Nath Agricultural Science Foundation.
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Reddy, P. (2014). Tuber Crops. In: Biointensive Integrated Pest Management in Horticultural Ecosystems. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1844-9_17
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