Enhancing Potato Crop Health: How Purpureocillium lilacinum Mitigates Cyst Nematode Infestations
In the picturesque potato fields of Idaho, farmers have long battled a silent yet devastating enemy: potato cyst nematodes. It fixes itself to potato roots and sucks the nutrients from it and therefore plants grow unhealthy and the yield is bad. Conventional chemical mechanisms for controlling pests do a satisfactory job but they have adverse…