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The role of high soil temperatures in the damping-off of true potato seedlings in the lowland tropics

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Fritz Elango
Department of Plant Science and Biochemistry, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine. Trinidad. W.I
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True potato seedlings
Rhizoctonia solani
High soil temperatures

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The role of high soil temperatures in the damping-off of true potato seedlings in the lowland tropics. (1986). Tropical Agriculture, 63(1). https://journals.sta.uwi.edu/ojs/index.php/ta/article/view/2096
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Abstract

Soil temperatures above 30°C induced significant wilting and weight loss in transplanted seedlings raised from true potato seed. Such soil temperatures also predisposed transplants to damping-off caused by Rhizoctonia solani Kiihn, sclerotial stage of Thanatephorus cucumeris (Frank) Donk. The implications of reducing soil temperatures on control of damping-off in seedlings are discussed.
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