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WINSLOW1 has shown that dried cysts of Heterodera major do not hatch well. He found that more than two thousand larvæ hatched from cysts recovered from wet soil, whereas only seven larvæ hatched from cysts which had been recovered from dried soil. Hesling2, in an experiment carried out at Rothamsted, confirmed Winslow's results, and concluded that this eelworm is quite sensitive to drying.
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Winslow, R. D., Ann, App. Biol., 43, 19 (1955).
Hesling, J. J., Nematol., 1 (1), 56 (1956).
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DUGGAN, J. Effect of Soil Drying on the Viability of Heterodera major Cysts. Nature 185, 554–555 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185554a0
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