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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors are grateful to the Tropical Agriculture
Association (United Kingdom) for making the CABI
horticultural abstracts available to members of the associa-
tion. The authors particularly thank Joung Kwan Lee of
the Republic of Korea, who provided valuable information
on the garlic storage situation in Korea and Dr Gemma
Chope at Cranfield University for advice.
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