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Fungitoxicity of Agricultural Waste-Derived Biochars Against Fusarium Oxysporum (Schlect) f.sp Radicis-Lycopersici (Jarvis and Shoemaker) Causal Agent of Fusarium Crown and Root Rot of Tomato

  

Nwaogu GA¹ ; Kolawole OO¹ ; Ogbonna PA¹

  

¹Department of Plant Health Management, Michael Okpara Universty of Agriculture, Umudike PMB 7267 Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria.

  

 

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