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Soil solarization (solar heating) is a nonchemical method for disease control by tarping the soil with transparent polyethylene for one month or more during the hot season, thereby heating the soil and killing the pathogens. An increase in soil temperatures is the most apparent pronounced effect of solarization. The temperatures in the upper layers of solarized soils may reach 44-50 C. Thus, heating can be responsible for the drastic reduction in pathogen populations observed in solarized soils (Katan 1981; Stapleton and DeVay 1986). However, there are cases in which pathogen populations were reduced in solarized soils also at marginal temperatures e.g. at deep soil layers or at marginal climatic conditions. For example, an effective killing of pathogens to the depths of 50-70 cm (where temperature of solarized are only 1-4 C higher than the nonsolarized) was observed with Dematophora, Verticillium dahliae and Phytophthora cinnamomi (Pinkas et al 1984; Pullman et al 1981; Sztenjberg et al 1987).
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Katan, J., DeVay, J.E., Greenberger, A. (1989). The Biological Control Induced by Soil Solarization. In: Tjamos, E.C., Beckman, C.H. (eds) Vascular Wilt Diseases of Plants. NATO ASI Series, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73166-2_37
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