Safe soil heat treatments to control of soil viruses

Food contamination is due to toxic pesticides that are used to control pests and diseases. Therefore safer treatments are need for better food security. Scientists Luvisi et al. show that soil steaming with addition of potassium hydroxide or calcium oxide decreased the infectivity of the Tobacco mosaic virus below 3.0 %.

 

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