agronomy Review Corm Rot of Saffron: Epidemiology and Management Vishal Gupta 1,* , Akash Sharma 1, Pradeep Kumar Rai 1, Sushil Kumar Gupta 2, Brajeshwar Singh 3 , Satish Kumar Sharma 4, Santosh Kumar Singh 5, Rafakat Hussain 5, Vijay Kumar Razdan 5, Devendra Kumar 5, Shazia Paswal 6, Vinod Pandit 7 and Rohit Sharma 8 1 Advanced Center for Horticulture Research, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu, Udheywalla 180 018, India;
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[email protected] Abstract: Saffron, comprising of dried stigmas of the plant known as Crocus sativus, is one of the most important and scantly cultivated agricultural products.