Soil disinfection with Nemasol™ prior to sowing or planting strawberries allows control of a vast catalog of soil-inhabiting, plant-pathogenic organisms and weeds such as:
- Fungi involved in root-rot diseases and plant withering: Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. fragariae, Verticillium dahliae, Phytophthora fragariae, Pythium spp., Rhizoctonia fragariae, Macrophomina phaseolina
- Root-knot nematodes: Meloidogyne hapla, M. incognita, M. javanica
- Root-lesion (Pratylenchus penetrans), stem (Ditylenchus dipsaci), needle (Longidorus elongatus) and foliar (Aphelenchoides sp.) nematodes
Efficacy of Nemasol against weeds, soil fungi and nematodes in strawberries
Number of weeds/m² at harvest in untreated: 157 GRAMI, 106 DICOT (Chenopodium album, Amaranthus retroflexus, Galinsoga parviflora, Capsella bursa-pastoris, Senecio vulgaris, Erodium cicutarium, Stellaria media, Gnaphalium uliginosum, Fallopia convolvulus, Matricaria discoidea, Lamium roseum, Conyza canadensis)
Source of data for the above four graphs: Proprietary data from Taminco BV, a subsidiary of Eastman Chemical Company (2013). Control of weeds, nematodes and soilborne pathogens (Nemasol 510 SL), Poland. InHort Skierniewice, OR/3/2013/1/I
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