Effect of soil solarization with double cover to control the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incogaita in tomato plant [electronic resource].

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The potential of soil solarization with double cover of transparent and black polyethylene sheets at different thickness to control the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incogaita on tomato plants was studied in a field trial during July August 2006. All soil solarization treatments either transparent polyethylene upper or black sheets upper greatly suppressed the nematode counts in soil reduced numbers of galls, developmental stages, egg masses per root, nematode final population and nematode reproduction as compared with the nonsolarized plot. All solarized treatments significant decreased nematode criteria when compared with the nonsolarized ones.

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