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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Sim CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5794772 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20180201 1
Various medicinal plants are threatened with extinction owing to their over-exploitation and the prevalence of soil borne pathogens. In this study, soils infected with root-rot pathogens, which prevent continuous-cropping, were treated with an electron beam. The level of soil-borne fungus was reduced to ≤0.01% by soil electron beam treatment without appreciable effects on the levels of antagonistic microorganism or on the physicochemical properties of the soil. The survival rate of 4-year-old pl ...[more]