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The effect of fumigants on soil recolonization in the glasshouse by organisms colonizing the spermosphere
Author(s) -
WATSON A. G.,
VAUGHAN E. K.
Publication year - 1968
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.1744-7348.1968.tb05452.x
Subject(s) - chloropicrin , fumigation , biology , trichoderma , penicillium , fusarium , pythium , horticulture , fusarium oxysporum , soil water , trichoderma harzianum , agronomy , botany , biological pest control , ecology
SUMMARY Germinating turnip seeds were used as baits to measure changes in colonizing floras of the spermosphere in glasshouse soil boxes following fumigation. The spermosphere mycoflora of the untreated soil was always dominated by Fusarium, Pythium , and Gliocladium spp. Methyl bromide, chloropicrin, and MBC 33 (a 67:33 mixture of methyl bromide and chloropicrin), applied in polyethylene bags at a rate of 2·5 ml/cubic foot of soil, greatly reduced colonization by Fusarium and Pythium spp. for 120 days. Fungi and actinomycetes recolonizing treated soils were more active than in untreated soils, and each fumigant induced a characteristic recolonization pattern. The spermosphere of methyl bromide‐treated soil was initially dominated by actinomycetes and later by Penicillium spp. In chloropicrin‐treated soil, Trichoderma and later Penicillium spp. dominated, and in soil treated with MBC 33 , Penicillium and Trichoderma spp. were co‐dominant. Dilution plates, made at the same time from the same soil, indicated a close correlation between inoculum density of different fungi in the soil and their inoculum potentials towards the spermosphere.