Foil-sis: Worthy alternative to Telone

摘要

Telone's future is far from assured. Can a biocontrol option help potato growers with cyst nematode problems? MikeAbram finds out. For about half the cost of soil sterilisation potato growers can trap crop potato cyst nematodes almost as effectively.But wider-scale growing of close potato relative Solanum sisymbriifolium looks unlikely unless Telone II is banned either at European level or from supermarket protocols because of the logistics of growing the crop. Marketed by Branston as Foil-sis and Greenvale AP as Decyst, the roots of the trap crop release a chemical trigger for the hatch of PCN. But, while juvenile nematodes invade the plant's roots, they are unable to complete their lifecycle.