Sodium alginate potentiates antioxidant defense and PR proteins against early blight disease caused by Alternaria solani in Solanum lycopersicum Linn.

• Priya Dey,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Unit of Plant Pathology, Centre for Advance Studies in Botany, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Ramani Ramanujam,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Unit of Plant Pathology, Centre for Advance Studies in Botany, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Ganesan Venkatesan,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Acme Progen Biotech (India) Pvt. Ltd, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Radhakrishnan Nagarathnam

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nradhakrishnan@unom.ac.in

  Affiliation Unit of Plant Pathology, Centre for Advance Studies in Botany, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2771-0195

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