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New transparent soil technology to help fight nematodes and other soil pests

New transparent soil technology to help fight nematodes and other soil pests

Nematode (c) James Hutton Institute
“Our system provides an extremely useful and rapid tool to help in the search for new, more environmentally acceptable plant protection products”
Image obtained using new transparent soil technology (c) James Hutton Institute

Scientists from the James Hutton Institute have developed a screening system which uses transparent soil technology to help fight nematodes - microscopic worms that are harmful to plants, damaging about 10% of susceptible crops and causing hundreds of billions of pounds of losses worldwide in a year.

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This article was originally posted by The James Hutton Institute