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Damping-Off Disease of Seedlings in Solanaceous Vegetables: Current Status and Disease Management

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Vegetables play an important role in a balanced diet by providing not only energy but also supplying vital protective nutrients like minerals and vitamins. In addition to their role in nutrition, vegetables increase attractiveness and palatability of a diet by providing sensory appeal through their test and flavours. Vegetables are a major and very important constituent of human diet (Thamburaj and Singh 2005).

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  1. Division of Plant Pathology, SKUAST-Jammu, Jammu, India

    Kanika Pagoch

  2. Department of Plant Pathology, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India

    J. N. Srivastava

  3. Division of Plant Pathology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Jammu, J & K, India

    Ashok Kumar Singh

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Pagoch, K., Srivastava, J.N., Singh, A.K. (2015). Damping-Off Disease of Seedlings in Solanaceous Vegetables: Current Status and Disease Management. In: Awasthi, L.P. (eds) Recent Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Plant Diseases. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2571-3_4

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