FURNION , Claudine

Root-knot nematodes are causing serious economic losses of vegetable production. Actual agroecological control solutions are not effective enough to control this pest or are difficult to implement in farms. There is little knowledge on the use of crops to trap nematodes in protected cultivation systems. Therefore, we tested a resistant pepper...

National audience

Root-knot nematodes (RKN, Meloidogyne spp.) is a major disease in sheltered vegetable crops, present on about 40% of the southern France farms (survey 2007 -2010). As most chemical nematicide products are now banned, it is necessary to find alternative solutions using agronomical techniques. New prototypes of cropping systems have been built...

National audience

National audience