Title: Nematicide - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Headings: Nematicide
Nematicide
Nematicides
Abstract
Pests of farm crops
6.5.3 Nematicides (including soil sterilants)
Pests of farm crops
7.6.3 Nematicides (including soil sterilants)
INSECTS AND OTHER ANIMALS | Nematodes
Preplanting Soil Nematicides
Plant Health Management: Crop Protection with Nematicides
New Approaches
DISEASE | Replant Problems and Soil Sickness
Measures to Control Nematodes
Fruits and Vegetables (including Herbs)
Plant Protection Products
Occupational exposure to chemicals and reproductive health
Male effects
Aldicarb
Uses
Lawn and Turf
47.2.2.3 Nematodes and Nematicides
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Content: In different countries, different ranges of fumigants (e.g. methyl bromide and dichloropropene), precursors of fumigants (e.g. dazomet) and nonvolatile nematicides (in granular form such as aldicarb) are still authorized for use but the list is becoming more and more restricted because of the negative environmental impact of the chemicals. Methylbromide, for example, which has a remarkably wide-spectrum activity (including weeds, soil fungi, nematodes and insects), will be banned in all countries of the European Union in 2005. Nematicides protect young plantlets during the first stages of their development and allow their satisfactory installation and subsequent productivity. None the less, none of the nematicides can eradicate nematodes from the soil because individuals can usually survive in deeper levels where they can escape chemical diffusion; reinfestation of the plants will inevitably occur after a few months or years. It is absolutely necessary that preplanting chemical treatments, which act only against nematode stages surviving in the bare soil, are combined with the use of nematode-free nursery plants. View chapter Purchase book
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Plant Health Management: Crop Protection with Nematicides
J.O. Becker, in Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems, 2014
New Approaches
Regulatory restrictions on nematicides are often viewed negatively by growers and commodities as they initially limit the available tools and strategies to combat a serious foe. But in the long run, similar challenges to other pesticides have been met with the development of superior compounds and innovative technologies.