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Small Doses of D‐D Soil Fumigant to Control Free‐living Nematodes Injurious to Sugar Beet
Author(s) -
Whitehead A. G.,
Tite D. J.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
plant pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.928
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-3059
pISSN - 0032-0862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3059.1967.tb00380.x
Subject(s) - sugar beet , biology , agronomy , plough , spring (device) , sugar , infestation , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , engineering
SUMMARY Small doses of D‐D kill many free‐living nematodes in sandy soil and can significantly increase yields of sugar and barley grain. The fumigant can be placed during ploughing and its position indicated by drilling rows of winter wheat at intervals on the ploughed land. The rows of wheat act as markers in the spring and allow spring‐sown crops to be drilled in the fumigated bands of soil.