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The Effect of Soil Fumigation on the Growth of Sugar Beet
Author(s) -
Greet D. N.
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.tb00382.x
Subject(s) - fumigation , chloropicrin , sugar beet , biology , nematode , agronomy , sugar , soil water , yield (engineering) , aldicarb , horticulture , pesticide , ecology , food science , materials science , metallurgy
SUMMARY In four trials in sandy soils where beet had previously grown poorly, only slight improvements in growth and yield were obtained after fumigating the soil with dichloropropene‐dichloropropane mixture or chloropicrin. Sugar yields from D‐D treated plots, however, tended to be depressed. Neither the needle nematode ( Longidorus attenuatus ) nor stubby root nematodes ( Trichodorus spp.) were abundant at the four sites.