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research article

Nematode on cotton: Root-knot nematode control by soil fumigation profitable in Kern County

authors

D. J. Raski, University of California
M. W. Allen, University of California
V. E. Burton, University of California

publication information

California Agriculture 7(4):8-13. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v007n04p8. April 1953.

author affiliations

Dewey J. Raski is Lecturer in Entomology and Parasitology, University of California, Berkeley; M. W. Allen is Assistant Professor of Entomology and Parasitology, University of California, Berkeley; V. E. Burton is Farm Advisor, Kern County, University of California;

abstract

Not available – first paragraph follows:

Soil fumigation enables a grower to plant' cotton on land infested with root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita var. acrita,—and to obtain yields that give profit above cost of fumigation.

author notes

The above progress report is based on Research Project No. 1354