Evaluation of solar heating (solarization) and chemicals for the control of bacterial wilt of potato.
Year: 1984
Type: article
Abstract: For the control of bacterial wilt of potato in the fall cropping caused by Pseudomonas solanacearum, chloropicrin injection treatment into soil at the rate of 30l/10a followed by covering with polyethylene film over the whole treated area of the field was found to be more effective than dazomet at 30kg/10a and chloropicrin at 10l/10a or 20l/10a with polyethy-lene-covering. And the effect of chloropicrin 10l/10a or 20l/10a with polyethylene-covering was as well as that of chloropicrin 30l/10a without polyethylene-covering. Solarization, namely heating the field soil by mulching with a transparent polyethylene film over the soil sur-face in the summer season gave good control in two experiment fields out of the five fields tested. The biovar II strain of P. solanacearum was detected only in the fields where the control was not effective. But only the biovar IV strain was isolated in the fields where solarization was effective.
Source: Kyushu Plant Protection Research
Authors: Katsumi KATAYAMA, Sadao KIMURA, Toshinori SHINSU
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2519940628