Campus Units

Plant Pathology and Microbiology

Document Type

Article

Publication Version

Published Version

Publication Date

6-1995

Journal or Book Title

Journal of Nematology

Volume

27

Issue

2

First Page

164

Last Page

171

Abstract

Experiments were conducted to determine the effects of zinc fertilizers on hatching and soil population densities of Heterodera glycines. In vitro egg hatching in solutions of reagent-grade zinc sulfate and zinc chloride and fertilizer-grade zinc sulfate was significantly greater than hatching in deionized water, whereas zinc chelate fertilizer significantly inhibited egg hatching relative to deionized water. In greenhouse experiments, no differences in cumulative percentage egg hatch were detected in soil naturally infested with H. glycines amended with fertilizer-grade zinc sulfate and zinc chelate at rates equivalent to 0, 1.12, 11.2, and 112 kg Zn/ha and subsequently planted with corn (Zea mays L.). In a field experiment, no significant differences in H. glycines egg population densities and corn yields were detected among plots fertilized with 0, 11.2, and 22.4 kg Zn/ha rates of zinc chelate. Yields of H. glycines-susceptible soybean planted in plots 1 year after zinc fertilization of corn plots also were not significantly affected. Zinc compounds significandy affected H. glycines egg hatching in vitro, but had no effect on hatching in natural soils. Key words: Glycine max, Heterodera glycines, hatching, nematode, soybean cyst nematode, zinc fertilizer.

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This article is published as Behm, J. E., G. L. Tylka, T. L. Niblack, W. J. Wiebold, and P. A. Donald. "Effects of Zinc Fertilization of Corn on Hatching of Heterodera glycines in Soil." Journal of Nematology 27, no. 2: 164-171. Posted with permissions.

Copyright Owner

The Society of Nematologists

Language

en

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