Soil solarization for controlling soil-borne pathogens in vegetable crops


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Authors

  • HARENDER RAJ
  • M L BHARDWAJ

Keywords:

broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, Chinese sarson, lettuce, onion, tomato, wilt, soil solarization, mulching, Fusarium, Phoma, Sclerotium and Sclerotinia sclerortionum

Abstract

 A study was conducted during 1995-98 at Jachh to find out the effect of transparent polyethylene mulch on soil
temperature, incidence of soilborne diseases, plant growth and yield of vegetable crops, Solar heating with transparent
polyethylene mulch of a infected field in slimmer for 40 days under irrigated conditions reduced the incidence of soilborne
diseases. Mulching with transparent polyethylene resulted in 14°C higher temperature at 8 em soil depth with an average
maximum temperature of 50° C which was found lethal to soilborne pathogens. Incidence of different soil-borne diseases
in solarized plots ranged between 0 and 6 % in different crops in comparison to 10-21 % in unsolarized plots.

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Author Biographies

  • HARENDER RAJ
    Assistant Scientist(Plant Pathology), Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, YSPUHF, Nauni, Himachal Pradesh 173 230
  • M L BHARDWAJ

    Assistant Scientist (Vegetable Crops)

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Vol. 70 No. 5 (2000)

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How to Cite

RAJ, H., & BHARDWAJ, M. L. (2013). Soil solarization for controlling soil-borne pathogens in vegetable crops. The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 70(5). https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/28262