Botanicals in Eco-Friendly Post Harvest Disease Management
Parthasarathy Seethapathy*
Department of Plant Pathology, Center for Plant Protection Studies, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore - 641003, Tamil Nadu, India.
Rajalakshmi Jayaraman
Department of Plant Pathology, Center for Plant Protection Studies, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore - 641003, Tamil Nadu, India.
Narayanan Palani
Department of Plant Pathology, Center for Plant Protection Studies, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore - 641003, Tamil Nadu, India.
Prabakar Kuppusami
PGP College of Agricultural Science, Namakkal - 637405, Tamil Nadu, India.
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Botanicals, Ecofriendly, Fungicides, Post harvest diseases
Abstract
Synthetic fungicides are widely used in conventional agriculture to control plant diseases. Post harvest pathogens which causes serious losses annually in Indian fruits and vegetables. The disease is currently managed with synthetic fungicides under post harvest condition by fungicidal dipping. Applied chemical pesticides are one of the effective and fast means for reducing the loss of post-harvest diseases. Nevertheless, the excessive use of these chemicals for controlling fungi in fruit has been counterproductive, causing damage to the environment and humans, with increased demands to reduce the use of these chemicals that accumulate in fruits and vegetables.
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