ILVO shares its potato expertise at Potato Europe 2023
...d for detection of pests in soil, water and stock commodities, among other things. Potato cyst nematodes under control? 20 years ago, our potato crop suffered greatly from potato cysts ca...
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ILVO develops 5 new varieties of double-resistant fodder radish
... 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 ...
ILVO with new demos and formulas at 2023 edition of Machinery Days
...dish stands out. The latest upcoming varieties are capable of destroying up to 90% of the root knot nematodes and beet cyst nematodes present with their resistance properties. Narrow plantain -from...
Determining soil health over time via 'microscopic soil life' indicator? PhD shows unexpected confirmation
...rently, the number of earthworms present is counted, for example, or the number of certain types of nematodes or fungi. This research opted to take a remarkably large number of different soil sampl...
Residual soil cleaned and returned to the field?
... aim here is to further search for a feasible way to decontaminate residual soil to make it free of nematodes. Moreover, this time the researchers are also taking a closer look at the contamination...
Good news for the bioeconomy: extracting chitin from shrimp and crab shells can be done through "soft" biological processes. The by-products also show potential.
... of the properties showed that some of the substances obtained could neutralize free radicals, kill nematodes and prevent the formation of biofilms. These are properties that can potentially be use...
Plant attacker of the month October: the root lesion nematode Pratylenchus spp.
Pratylenchus spp. (root lesion nematodes) are worms (Nematoda) that are so small they can only be seen with a microscope. They feed and multiply on plant roots, causing wounds (= lesions) that result ...
In-depth knowledge of soil pathogens in greenhouse soil offers opportunities for IPM
...sed incidence of disease of various soil-bound plant pathogens, including fungi, pseudo-fungi and nematodes. The most important nematodes are the root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans and the...
Plant attacker for March 2020: the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne sp.
Meloidogyne spp. are microscopically small worms. They belong to the Nematoda or nematodes, a very diverse group of animals. Some of them are specialized as plant parasites. Here, the so-called “root-...
ILVO expands compost site and points to potential of compost
...on chalky soil improversPromotes beneficial soil organisms (bacteria, fungi, good nematodes, etc.). A more active and diverse soil life increases the disease resilience of the soil, which can resul...
ILVO's Diagnosic Centre for Plants named the first European reference laboratory (EURL) for nematodes and bacteria
...ence of all kinds of plant-pathogenic organisms. Since 2007, ILVO has been the only Belgian NRL for nematodes, insects and bacteria, and together with CRA-W, the Walloon counterpart of ILVO, NRL fo...