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Spice Crops

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Symptoms, biomanagement and integrated management of fungal, bacterial and viral diseases, nematode pests, disease complexes and insect pests of spice crops (black pepper, cardamom, ginger, turmeric, vanilla, coriander, cumin and mustard) using PGPR alone or PGPR integrated with physical and cultural methods, botanicals, bioagents and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are discussed.

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Reddy, P.P. (2014). Spice Crops. In: Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for Horticultural Crop Protection. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1973-6_14

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