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Soil texture and irrigation influence the transport and the development of Pasteuria penetrans, a bacterial parasite of root-knot nematodes [An article from: Soil Biology and Biochemistry] | Digital

by K. Dabire (Author), T. Mateille (Author)

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March 01, 2004

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This digital document is a journal article from Soil Biology and Biochemistry, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: The transport of the spores of Pasteuria penetrans was studied in three contrasted textured soils (a sandy, a sandy-clay and a clay soils), cultivated with tomato, inoculated with juveniles of Meloidogyne javanica and watered with 25 or 150mmday^-^1. One month after inoculation of the nematodes, 53% of the spores inoculated were leached by water flow in the sandy soil but only 14% in the sandy-clay soil and 0.1% in the clay soil. No nematodes survived in the clay soil, while the population was multiplied both in the sandy and in the sandy-clay soils. But juveniles of M. javanica were more infected by P. penetrans in the sandy-clay soil than in the sandy soil. Comparing different combinations of bare soils containing 1.1-57% of clay showed that the best spore percolation and retention balance occurred in soils amended with 10-30% clay. However, the spore recoveries decreased when the soil was enriched with more than 30% clay. The role of clay particles on the extractability of spores and on their availability to attach to the nematode cuticle in the soil is discussed.