Drip fertigation with nitrogen and potassium and postharvest susceptibility to bacterial soft rot of bell peppers

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• Partial funding for this research was from Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agropecuaria of Uruguay (I.N.I.A.), Andes 1365 P.12, Montevideo, Uruguay and from the Unites States Department of Agriculture Special Grant F.L. 89–106: “Agricultural Adjustment in the Southeast Through Alternative Cropping Systems.”; The use of trade names in this publication does not imply endorsement by the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service of the products named, nor criticism of similar ones not mentioned.
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