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Plant defense response against Fusarium oxysporum and strategies to develop tolerant genotypes in banana.
Planta - 1 Apr 2014
Swarupa V, Ravishankar K V, Rekha A
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Soil-borne fungal pathogen, Fusarium oxysporum causes major economic losses by inducing necrosis and wilting symptoms in many crop plants. Management of fusarium wilt is achieved mainly by the use of chemical fungicides which affect the soil health and their efficiency is often limited by pathogenic variability. Hence understanding the nature of interaction between pathogen and host may help to select and improve...
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