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ATTEMPTS at the biological control of soil-borne eelworm pests have usually involved a process of green manuring or the addition of some organic amendment to the soil1–3. A method has been developed to obtain direct evidence of the effects of such treatments on the predaceous activity of indigenous populations of nematode-trapping fungi in the soil, such work being regarded as fundamental to the investigation of methods using these fungi as agents of biological control.
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COOKE, R. Agar Disk Method for the Direct Observation of Nematode-trapping Fungi in the Soil. Nature 191, 1411–1412 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1911411a0
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