date:Jan 15, 2019
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Bengaluru, have found that Salmonella, an infectious bacteria, is seen to contaminate pre-harvest and the bacteria is seen to enter the plant even from infected soil.
The study was conducted by a four-member team of scientists from IISc, led by Prof Utpal Nath of the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, IISc, and Prof Nataraja Karaba from UAS.
We always had a thought that post-harvest contamination ma