Effect of soil fertility management practices on nematode destroying fungi in Taita, Kenya
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2011Author
Wachira, P M
Okoth, S
Kimenju, J
Mibey, R K
Kiarie, J
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The study aimed at identifying soil fertility practices
that promoted nematode destroying fungi in the soil
and the treatments comprised of Mavuno fertilizer,
Triple super- phosphate and calcium ammonium
nitrate (TSP+CAN), cow manure and a control where
no amendments were applied. This experiment was
replicated in ten farms for three planting seasons.
There were significant difference (P= 1.705 x 10-06) in
occurrence of the nematode destroying fungi between
soil fertility treatments. The highest mean occurrence
of nematode destroying fungi was 1.6 which was
recorded in soils amended with cow manure and the
least was in soils from the control plots. A mean of
0.78 was recorded in soils from both TSP+CAN and
Mavuno fertilizers. Plots amended with cow manure
gave the highest diversity of nematodes followed by
the control, then TSP+CAN and least in Mavuno with
shannon indices of 0.34, 0.15, 0.13 and 0.11
respectively. Sixty percent of all the isolated nematode
destroying fungi genera were from plots treated with
cow manure and only twenty percent were from plots
amended with the inorganic fertilizer
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Citation
Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, vol. 13, núm. 1, 2011, pp. 43-49Publisher
school of biological sciences
Subject
Nematode destroying fungiArthrobotrys oligospora
organic amendments
plant parasitic nematodes.