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Potatoes

Nemasol™ soil fumigant provides a reliable solution for potato farmers, addressing their concerns about pest and disease control. By enhancing success in potato cultivation, Nemasol plays a significant role in supporting food production. As potatoes are a crucial, global food staple, the effectiveness of Nemasol helps farmers cultivate their crops with confidence.

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One-step application

When applying Nemasol in connection with potato farming, the product is applied to bare soil via injection or incorporation technology, providing one-step control of weeds, soilborne diseases and pests.

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Soil injection and incorporation

For potatoes, it is recommended that Nemasol be injected or incorporated directly into the soil. This allows for effective distribution and absorption of the fumigant into the soil, targeting pests and diseases that may affect potato plants.

Biological activity

Nemasol provides protection to potato crop against a vast catalog of soil-inhabiting, plant pathogenic organisms, including:

  • Nematodes: Meloidogyne spp; Heterodera spp; Globodera spp; Ditylenchus dipsaci; Pratylenchus spp; and Trichodorus spp and Paratrichodorus spp, which transmit the tobacco rattle virus
  • Fungi: Synchytrium endobioticum, Streptomyces spp, Spongospora subterranean, Helminthosporium spp, Rhizoctonia spp, Fusarium spp. and Verticillium spp
  • Insects: wireworms, cutworms and white grubs
  • Weeds: Nemasol allows control of most broadleaf and grass weeds, including their seeds, as well as volunteer potatoes and perennial weeds like nutsedges

When applying Nemasol, a favorable biotope is created which promotes plant vigor and healthy crop growth. Nemasol rebalances the soil, so crops can establish themselves faster and more vigorously. Because soil has been disinfected with Nemasol, plants can develop and grow more evenly, increasing the marketable yield.

  1. Efficacy of Nemasol against nematodes in potatoes

Graphic efficacy of Nemasol on Globodera rostochiensis in potatoes

Source: Proprietary data from Taminco BV, a subsidiary of Eastman Chemical Company (2013). Efficacy of Metam Sodium against cyst nematodes in potatoes, The Netherlands. Exploras Agro Development BV, EO-01 (EAD-13-085)

Graphic of effect of Nemasol on Potato yield in controlling nematodes Trichodorus, Pratylenchus and Meloidogyne

Source: Proprietary data from Taminco BV, a subsidiary of Eastman Chemical Company (2013). Efficacy of metam sodium against cyst nematodes in potatoes, The Netherlands. Exploras Agro Development BV, EO-01 (EAD-13-085)

  1. Efficacy of Nemasol against soil fungi in potatoes

Graphic of efficacy of Nemasol on Potato scab

Source: H. Gunacti, A. Erkiliç (2013). Developing control strategies of potato wart disease (Synchytrium endobioticum) in Turkey. ESci J. Plant Pathol. 02 (02) 2013, 76-83

Graphic of severity of potato wart

Source: S. Jordan, B. Webster, A. Crockford, A.J. Gevens (2011). Evaluating fumigation and at-plant treatments for the control of potato common scab in Wisconsin, USA. Plant Disease Management Reports, 6: V096

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