Soil Solarization and Integrated Management of Soilborne Pests

Contents: 1. Soil solarization: past, present, and future/James E. DeVay and James J. Stapleton. 2. Soil fumigation for nematode control: present and future constraints/F. Lamberti and J.W. Noling. 3. Pre-and post-plant soil solarization/Walid Abu-Gharbieh. 4. Evaluation of short periods of treatment by solar chamber for controlling Verticillium wilt of olive trees/M.A. Al-Ahmad and A. Duksi. 5. Assessment of soil solarization efficacy through monitoring of Verticillium Dahliae population in the soil/E.J. Paplomatas and A.J. Termorshuizen. 6. Comparison of solarization techniques to disinfest soil for containerized nursery production/J.J. Stapleton, L. Ferguson and M.V. McKenry. 7. Studies on vegetable: transplants using seed-bed solarization: improving of cabbage and lettuce transplant characters/M.M.F. Abdaiiah, S.A. El-Hadad and M.M. Satour. 8. Modes of action of solarization and biofumigation/James J. Stapleton. 9. Longevity of soil solarization and effects of sublethal heating/E.C. Tjamos, Polymnia P. Antoniou and Deborah Fravel. 10. Thermal effects of coextruded black plastic mulches in greenhouse soil solarization/C. Arcidiacono, G. Cascone, C.R. Fichera and D. Gutkowski. 11. Long-term effect of soil solarization on density levels of Fusarium Solani in established fruit tree orchards/Hifzi A. Abu-Blan, W. Abu-Gharbieh and F. Shatat. 12. Effect of soil solarization and methyl bromide fumigation on Fusarium wilt of muskmelon in the Jordan Valley/Zakaria A. Musallam and Waleed Abu-Gharbieh. 13. Soil solarization: a management practice for corn stalk rot/Yasmin Ahmad, A. Hameed and M. Aslam. 14. Effect of soil solarization on soil-borne pathogens in Lebanon/H. Sobh and Y. Abou-Jawdah. 15. Studies on vegetable transplants using seed-bed solarization: b) Improvement of onion transplant characters and smut disease control/M.S. Abd El-Megid, A.S. Ibrahim, S.A. Khalid and M.M. Satour. 16. Effect of soil solarization on controlling clavibacter michiganensis subsp. Michiganensis, the bacterial canker of tomatoes in plastic houses in Greece/Polymnia P. Antoniou, E.J. Tjamos and C.G. Panagopoulos. 17. The effect of soil solarization on bacterial canker of tomato in the Mediterranean region of Turkey/S. Tokgonul, O. Cynar and K. Rudolph. 18. Effect of soil solarization on the survival of bacterial speck on tomato plant Debris in soil/Y. Aysan, O. Cinar and K. Rudolph. 19. Soil solarization: an alternative technique for weed management in hot climates/A.R. Saghir. 20. Effects of soil solarization on weed infestation and mycorrhiza management/J-P Caussanel, A. Trouvelot, J. Vivant, and S. Gianinazzi. 21. Comparative solarization effects on seed germination of cuscuta and Orobanche species/B.E. Abu-Irmaileh and S. Thahabi. 22. Effect of soil solarization on Orobanche in the Central Sudan/Nasr Eldin Khairi Abdalla and Z.T. Dabrowski. 23. Weed seed responsiveness to thermal degree hours under laboratory conditions and soil solarization in greenhouse/Garyfalia Economou, G. Mavrogiannopoulos and E.A. Paspatis. 24. Soil solarization for control of Dodder (Cuscuta spp.) and other weeds in cabbage/M.A. Haidar, N. Iskandarani. 25. Effectiveness of solarization for controlling plant parasitic nematodes in plastic houses/F.A. Bisheya, W.I. Mansour, A.M. Abughnia and A.I. Hagi. 26. Effectiveness of soil solarization against meloidogyne javanice and Heterodera schachtii in the Jordan Valley/Haleemah Said and Walid Abu-Gharbieh. 27. Soil solarization to control plant parasitic nematodes/Muzna Suleiman Al-Hinai and Annamalai Mani. 28. Soil solarization studies under protected agriculture: soilborne disease control and increased pepper and cucumber productivity/S.A. El-Haddad, A.S. Ibrahim and M.M. Satour. 29. Contribution of soil solarization to integrated pest management systems for field production/Dan O. Chellemi. 30. Solarization in integrated management systems for greenhouses/Girolamo Cartia. 31. Experience acquired in Southern Italy in controlling soilborne pathogens by soil solarization and chemicals/G. Cartia, N. Greco and P. Di Primo. 32. Studies on the effect of soil solarization including combinations with fumigant and antagonist in greenhouse to control soil borne pathogens in the East Mediterranean Region of Turkey/Seral Yucel and Salih Cali. 33. Efficacy of solarization vis-a-vis natural heating of residue amended soils for management of soil-borne pathogens/Satish Lodha, S.K. Sharma and R.K. Aggarwal. 34. Integrated management of soilborne pests in protected cultivation: constraints and perspectives/Mohamed Besri. 35. Effect of inoculum source type and cultural practices on the spread of Phytophthora capsici in bell pepper/J.B. Ristaino, G. Parra and C.L. Campbell. 36. Effect of the water salt content on the development of verticillium wilt (Verticillium Dahliae) of tomato/Mohamed Besri. 37. Towards integrated disease management of wilts and root rots of Chickpea and Lentil in West Asia and North Africa (Wana)/C. Akem, S. Kemal and B. Bayaa. 38. Nematode - destroying fungi from Sudanese soils/Elnour Elamin. 39. Integrated control of root-rot/wilt diseases in Faba bean, lentil and chickpea/A.M. Hassanein, G.A. El-Morsy, N.M. Abou-Zeid and Samia A. Mahmoud. 40. Sensitivity pest organisms to soil solarization/Clyde L. Elmore. 41. Advances in temperature predictive models for soil solarization/J.B. Ristaino, K.B. Perry and Y. Wu. 42. A device simulating the thermal regimes of soil solarization in laboratory experiments "summertime"/G. Burrafato, G. Cartia and D. Gutkowski. 43. Experimental tests on new materials and techniques for soil solarization and mathematical models for the prediction of soil temperature/G. Scarascia Mugnozza, G. Russo, G. Vox and F. De Santis. 44. The economics of soil solarization compared to conventional agricultural production/Carl E. Bell. 45. Impact of the quality of polyethylene on the economics of soil solarization technology/Mohamed Y. Sultan, M.M. Satour and Safwat A. El-Haddad. 46. Effects of polyethylene soil mulching on tylenchulus semipenetrans and vegetative, root and yield parameters of navel orange/Ahmed E. Ismail and Hamdi Z. Aboul Eid. 47. Solar chamber as an inclusive method for controlling verticillium wilt of olive trees/M.A. Al-Ahmad and A. Duski. 48. Solarization for controlling soilborne fungi-in plastic houses/Salah Al-Chaabi and Lina Matrod. 49. Effect of soil solarization on population densities of some soil microorganisms/Salah M. Mahmoud. 50. Effects of solarization against strawberry root rot disease in the East Mediterranean Region of Turkey/H. Pala and A. Cinar. 51. Studies on solarization against root-knot nematode and weeds in vegetable greenhouses in the Mediterranean region of Turkey/Yknur Tekin, Yzzet Kadyoolu and Ylhan Uremip. 52. Soil solarization for the control of ditylenchus dipsaci on onion in Southern Italy/N. Sasanelli, V. D' Aloisio, M. Basile and F. Lamberti. 53. Establishment, survival, and growth of apple trees (Malus domestica 'Granny Smith') using post-plant solarization in soil infested with sclerotium rolfsii/J.J. Stapleton. 54. Integrated pest management in fresh market tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum 'Shady Lady') using combined soil solarization and reflectorized Mulch/J.J. Stapleton and C.G. Summers. 55. Solarization for pest management in hot arid lands/Ahmed A. Al Masoum, Ahmed A. Hashim, A. Al Asaal and K. Jaafer. 56. Fluctuation of population densities of fusarium oxysporum F.Sp. Dianthi after incorporation in natural, solarized and sterilized soil/K. Elena, E.C. Tjamos and Z. Tsekoura.