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Keywords: cultural control of plant pathogens, sanitation, removal of crop refuse, burning, flooding, pruning, roguing, crop rotation, crop residue management, citrus canker Xanthomonas citri, mint rust Puccinia menthae, Panama disease bananas Fusarium oxysporum, fusarium wilt Pseudomonas solanacearum, burrowing nematode Radopholus similis, seedling rust of safflower Puccinia carthami, swollen shoot of cocoa, banana virus disease, sugarcane downy mildew Sclerospora sacchari, stem rust Puccinia graminis, barberry alternate plant host, cedar-apple rust Gymnosporangium juniper-virginianae, Rhizoctonia solani, seedling blight of wheat, Cephalosporium gramineum, bean root rot Thielaviopis basicola, corn stalk rot Fusarium moniliforme, peanuts Sclerotium rolfsii