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New Approaches to Soil Disinfestation for Specialty Crops

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Abstract

Soil disinfestation is a method of pest control that has been practiced since the late 1800s, with the application of steam. This was followed by the development of chloropicrin for soil fumigation in the 1920s. In the 1950s, the introduction of methyl bromide as a soil fumigant changed numerous specialty crop agricultural production systems forever. This broad-spectrum fumigant provided pest control for major vegetable and berry fruit crops, particularly in California and Florida for more than 50 years. It allowed growers to dramatically increase yields, but its loss due to its negative impact on the ozone layer left producers without a stand-alone tool to control existing and emerging pests. In the last 20 years, focused research has resulted in the optimization of application strategies for existing alternative chemical fumigants, the development of new chemicals, and extraordinary progress in utilizing non-chemical soil disinfestation methods and biologically based systems for pest control.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Juliana Baggio, Ole Becker, Nathan Boyd, Kathy Demchak, Myles Gibson, Michael Hensley, Mark Hoffman, Jason C. Hong, Elisa Lauritzen, Joji Muramoto, and Anna Testen for providing their pictures and information on specific soilborne pests and pathogen issues. A significant portion of the research conducted on anaerobic soil disinfestation in Florida, California, and Pennsylvania was funded by the USDA, ARS Southeast and Pacific Areawide Projects on Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation, by USDA, NIFA, SCRI Grant #2017-51181-26832, and by the USDA, NIFA, OREI Grant # 2021-51300-34914. F. Di Gioia’s contribution was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and Hatch Appropriations under Project no. PEN04723 and Accession no. 1020664.

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Rosskopf, E., Di Gioia, F. (2023). New Approaches to Soil Disinfestation for Specialty Crops. In: Elmer, W.H., McGrath, M., McGovern, R.J. (eds) Handbook of Vegetable and Herb Diseases. Handbook of Plant Disease Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35512-8_12-1

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