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IN view of the serious losses to crops caused by eelworms, and the possibility that their destruction by predacious fungi may be of potential value as a means of control, some knowledge of the natural occurrence of these fungi in arable soil is desirable. The results set out below are those of a survey carried out on forty-nine samples of soil from various parts of England. The samples were taken from arable land, much of which was infested with potato root eelworm or cereal root eelworm, and from glass-houses in Warwickshire in which tomatoes were the principal crop, and in many of which the potato root eelworm was causing damage.
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Duddington, C. L., Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc., 34, 322 (1951).
Duddington, C. L., Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc., 34, 598 (1951).
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DUDDINGTON, C. Nematode-destroying Fungi in Agricultural Soils. Nature 173, 500–501 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173500a0
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