title: Effects of water regime, crop residues, and application rates on control of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense.
abstract: Biological soil disinfestation is an effective method to control soil-borne disease by flooding and incorporating with organic amendments, but field conditions and resources sometimes limited its practical application. A laboratory experiment was conducted to develop practice guidelines on controlling Fusarium wilt, a widespread banana disease caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (FOC). FOC infested soil incorporated with rice or maize straw at rates of 1.5 tons/ha and 3.0 tons/ha was incubated under flooded or water-saturated (100% water holding capacity) conditions at 30°C for 30 days. Results showed that FOC populations in the soils incorporated with either rice or maize straw rapidly reduced more than 90% in the first 15 days and then fluctuated till the end of incubation, while flooding alone without organic amendment reduced FOC populations slightly. The rapid and dramatic decrease of redox potential (down to -350 mV) in straw-amended treatments implied that both anaerobic condition and strongly reductive soil condition would contribute to pathogen inactivation. Water-saturation combined with straw amendments had the comparable effects on reduction of FOC, indicating that flooding was not indispensable for inactivating FOC. There was no significant difference in the reduction of FOC observed in the straw amendments at between 1.5 and 3 tons/ha. Therefore, incorporating soil with straw (rice or maize straw) at a rate of 3.0 tons/ha under 100% water holding capacity or 1.5 tons/ha under flooding, would effectively alleviate banana Fusarium wilt caused by FOC after 15-day treating under 30°C.
authors.affiliation: School of Geography Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.; Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China; State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China. Electronic address: wenteng@njnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Teng
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.affiliation: School of Geography Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.
authors.forename: Xinqi
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: School of Geography Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.
authors.forename: Jinbo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: School of Geography Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.
authors.forename: Tongbin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: College of Agriculture, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.affiliation: School of Geography Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.. Electronic address: zccai@njnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Zucong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cai
mesh_terms: D000190:Actinomyces; D000898:Antibiosis; D005670:Fusarium / Q000187:drug effects*; D007220:Industrial Waste; D028521:Musa / Q000382:microbiology*; D012275:Oryza; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018547:Plant Stems; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D014867:Water; D003313:Zea mays
chemical_list: D007220:Industrial Waste; D014867:Water
keywords: Banana Fusarium wilt; Biological soil disinfestation; Organic amendments; Treatment duration; Water regime treatment duration