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CALCIUM CHLOROACETATE AS A SOIL DRESSING AGAINST BEET EELWORM: HETERODERA SCHACHTH SCHMIDT, WITH CERTAIN ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS
Author(s) -
JONES D. PRICE
Publication year - 1947
Publication title -
annals of applied biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1744-7348
pISSN - 0003-4746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1947.tb06359.x
Subject(s) - heterodera schachtii , sugar beet , biology , infestation , agronomy , acre , sugar , calcium , horticulture , food science , chemistry , organic chemistry
Calcium chloroacetate at 3 and 6 cwt./acre produced significant increases in the yields of sugar beet (both washed beet and total sugar) in a trial on fen soil of the ‘skirt’ type infested with beet eelworm, Heterodera schachtii Schmidt. However, the material had no effect on the eelworm content of the soil whether measured by cysts, viable cysts or eggs and larvae. An instance is recorded of a significant drop in the level of the beet eelworm infestation in the presence of sugar beet.