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Mealybugs and their Management in Agricultural and Horticultural crops

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Mealybugs are injurious to tuber crops, mainly cassava (Manihot esculenta), and to some extent to taro (Colocasia esculenta), yam (Dioscorea spp.), sweet potato (Ipomea batatas Lam.), tannia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium), elephant foot yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius), yam bean (Pachyrrhizus erosus), and enset (Ensete ventricosum).

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Mani, M., Kalyanasundaram, M., Jayaprakas, C.A., Harish, E.R., Sreerag, R.S., Nedunchezhiyan, M. (2016). Tuber 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_54

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