ILVO not only breeds grasses, clovers, quinoa, also several green cover crops. One of these is fodder radish. From summer 2025 no less than 5 new varieties will be available on the market. And they are very special: these leafy radish varieties are able to purify the soil of 2 types of parasitic nematodes: the beet cyst nematode and the root knot nematode. As much as 90% of the nematodes in question are gone from an infected soil after just one sowing of fodder radish!
ILVO breeder Tim Vleugels tells more about it in this video (in Dutch).
In the intensive greenhouse cultivation of butterhead lettuce, the correct identification of soil pathogens and newly acquired insights into their potential to damage crops can help the lettuce plants...
