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Experimental Protocol for Manipulating Plant-induced Soil Heterogeneity
Published on: March 13, 2014
Making soil containing numerous eggs of WCR for greenhouse and laboratory experiments
T Németh1, Zs Marczali, M Nádasy
1University of Pannonia, Georgikon Faculty, Institute for Plant Protection, Ferenc Deák str. 57., HU-8360 Keszthely, Hungary. nemetht83@gmail.com
Abstract:
In the course of our work we often faced to the problem that WCR lays its eggs unevenly (Berger, 2008) so it is impossible to find soils under field circumstances which contains eggs in homogenous distribution and in large numbers. Owing to the inhomogeneous distribution and low number of eggs it is quite difficult to study the effectiveness of soil disinfectant and seed-dressing insecticides on larvae of WCR in pot experiments. Therefore, the aim of our studies was to gain soil samples with known quantity and distribution of eggs. According to our prevailing idea, numerous adults are placed into a relatively small place under ideal environmental conditions and a small quantity of soil is provided for them to lay eggs.

