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RECENTLY there has been concern about the efficiency of hot-water treatment to eradicate the stem and bulb eelworm (Ditylenchus dipsaci (Kühn) Filipjev) from Narcissus stocks. Following Staniland's work1, it was the standard practice in Britain to treat bulbs for 3 h at 110° F (43.3° C) rather than the 4 h which both Ramsbottom's2 and Van Slogteren's3 work suggested. More recently4 4 h at 110° F (43.3° C) or 3 h at 111° F (43.9° C) has been recommended to improve control. These treatments were based on in vitro treatments of the nematodes in water, and while in vivo tests with bulbs did not contradict the in vitro, the results have been extended to practical treatments of eelworms in bulbs assuming that longer (approximately 60 min) would be required to allow the centre of the bulbs to reach treatment temperature.
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GREEN, C. Killing of Bulb Eelworm by Hot-water Treatment. Nature 198, 303 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198303a0
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