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Mealybugs and their Management in Agricultural and Horticultural crops pp 455–470Cite as

Vegetable Crops

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Mealybugs are injurious to tomato, egg plant, okra, chow-chow, beans, Peas, Cauliflower and chillies in several countries. Management of mealybugs in the vegetable crops is discussed.

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Krishnamoorthy, A., Mani, M. (2016). Vegetable Crops. In: Mani, M., Shivaraju, C. (eds) Mealybugs and their Management in Agricultural and Horticultural crops . Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2677-2_53

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