Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The Biological Control Induced by Soil Solarization

  • Conference paper
Vascular Wilt Diseases of Plants

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASIH,volume 28))

Abstract

Soil solarization (solar heating) is a nonchemical method for disease control by tarping the soil with transparent polyethylene for one month or more during the hot season, thereby heating the soil and killing the pathogens. An increase in soil temperatures is the most apparent pronounced effect of solarization. The temperatures in the upper layers of solarized soils may reach 44-50 C. Thus, heating can be responsible for the drastic reduction in pathogen populations observed in solarized soils (Katan 1981; Stapleton and DeVay 1986). However, there are cases in which pathogen populations were reduced in solarized soils also at marginal temperatures e.g. at deep soil layers or at marginal climatic conditions. For example, an effective killing of pathogens to the depths of 50-70 cm (where temperature of solarized are only 1-4 C higher than the nonsolarized) was observed with Dematophora, Verticillium dahliae and Phytophthora cinnamomi (Pinkas et al 1984; Pullman et al 1981; Sztenjberg et al 1987).

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Abdel-Rahim, Satour MM, Mickail KY, El-Eraqi SA, Grinstein A, Chen Y and Katan J (1988) Effectiveness of soil solarization in furrow-irrigated Egyptian soils. Plant Disease 72: 143–146

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baker KF and Cook RJ (1974) Biological Control of Plant Pathogens, Freeman, San Francisco

    Google Scholar 

  • Baker R (1968) Mechanisms of biological control of soil-borne pathogens. Ann Rev phytopathol 6: 263–294

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Elad E, Katan J and Chet I (1980) Physical, biological and chemical control integrated for soilborne diseases in potatoes. Phytopathology 70: 418–422

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Greenberger A, Yogev A and Katan J (1984) Biological control in solarized soils. Proc Sixth Cong Mediter phytopath Union, Cairo, p 112

    Google Scholar 

  • Greenberger A, Yogev A and Katan J (1987) Induced suppressiveness in solarized soils. Phytopathology 77: 1663–1667

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hardy GE St and Sivasithamparam (1985) Soil solarization effects on Fusarium wilt of carnation and Verticillium wilt of eggplants. In Parker CA (ed) Biology and Management of Soilborne Plant Pathogens, APS, St Paul

    Google Scholar 

  • Katan J (1981) Solar heating (solarization) of soil for control of soilborne pests. Ann Rev Phytopathol 19: 211–236

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Katan J (1987) Soil solarization. In Chet I (ed) Innovative approaches to plant disease control, J Willey, p 77

    Google Scholar 

  • Katan J, Fishler G and Grinstein A (1983) Short- and long-term effects of soil solarization and crop sequence on Fusarium wilt and yield of cotton in Israel. Phytopathology 73: 1215–1219

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Katan J, Greenberger A, Alon H and Grinstein A (1976) Solar heating by polyethylene mulching for the control of diseases caused by soilborne pathogens. Phytopathology 66: 683–688

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lifshitz R, Tabachnik M, Katan J and Chet I (1983) The effect of sublethal heating on sclerotia of Sclerotium rolfsii. Can J Microbiol 29: 1607–1610

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Munnecke DE, Wilbur W and Darrley DF (1976) Effects of heating or drying on Armillaria mellea or Trichoderma viride and the relation to survival of A. mellea in soil. Phytopathology 66: 1363–1368

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pinkas Y, Kariv A and Katan J (1984) Soil solarization for the control of Phytophthora cinnamomi: thermal and biological effects. Phytopathology 74: 796 (Abstr)

    Google Scholar 

  • Pullman GS, DeVay JE, Garber RH and Weinhold AR (1981) Soil solarization effects on Verticillium wilt of cotton and soilborne populations of Verticillium dahliae, Pythium spp. Rhizoctonia solani and Thielaviopsis basicola. Phytopathology 71: 954–959

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ramirez-Villapudua J and Munnecke DE (1988) Effect of solar heating and soil amendments of cruciferous residues on Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. conglutinans and other organisms. Phytopathology 78: 289–295

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rubin B and Benjamin A (1984) Solar heating of the soil: involvement of environmental factors in the weed control process. Weed Sci 31: 819–825

    Google Scholar 

  • Stapleton JJ and DeVay JE (1982) Effect of soil solarization on populations of selected soilborne microorganisms and growth of deciduous fruit tree seedlings. Phytopathology 72: 323–326

    Google Scholar 

  • Stapleton JJ and DeVay JE (1983) Response of phytoparasitic and free-living nematodes to soil solarization and 1, 3-dichloropropene in California. Phytopathology 73: 1429–1436

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stapleton JJ and DeVay JE (1986) Soil solarization: a nonchemical approach for management of plant pathogens and pests. Crop Prot 5: 190–198

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sztejnberg A, Freeman S, Chet I and Katan J (1987) Control of Rosellinia necatrix in soil and in apple orchard by solarization and Trichoderma harzianum. Plant Disease 71: 365–369

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Tjamos EC and Paplomatas EJ (1987) Effect of soil Solarization on the survival of fungal antagonists of Verticillium dahliae. Bull OEPP/EPPO 17: 645–653

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Hebrew University, Rehovot, 76100, Israel

    J. Katan

  2. Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    J. E. DeVay

  3. Department of Vegetable Crops, ARO The Volcani Research Center, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel

    A. Greenberger

Authors
  1. J. Katan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. J. E. DeVay
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. A. Greenberger
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Laboratory of Phytopathology, Agricultural University of Athens, 118 55, Votanikos, Athens, Greece

    E. C. Tjamos

  2. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, 02881-0804, USA

    C. H. Beckman

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1989 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Katan, J., DeVay, J.E., Greenberger, A. (1989). The Biological Control Induced by Soil Solarization. In: Tjamos, E.C., Beckman, C.H. (eds) Vascular Wilt Diseases of Plants. NATO ASI Series, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73166-2_37

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73166-2_37

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-73168-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-73166-2

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation