Evaluation of the biocontrol efficacy of a Serratia marcescens strain indigenous to tea rhizosphere for the management of root rot disease in tea

• Gargee Dhar Purkayastha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gargee Dhar Purkayastha, Dipanwita Saha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, West Bengal, India

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• Preeti Mangar ,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Botany, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, West Bengal, India

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• Aniruddha Saha ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Software, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Botany, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, West Bengal, India

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• Dipanwita Saha

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gargee Dhar Purkayastha, Dipanwita Saha

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dsahanbu@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, West Bengal, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7524-5454

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