Gamliel A. & J. J. Stapleton. 1997. Improvement of Soil Solarization With Volatile Compounds Generated From Organic Amendments. Phytoparasitica 25. 

Grinstein, A. 1992. Introduction of a new agricultural technology - soil solarization - in Israel. Phytoparasitica 20.Suppl.:127S-131S. 

Countries

The information on these countries was obtained through scientific publications and or journal communication. We are in contact with investigators from many of these countries. If you know about additional countries in which solarization research is carried out, please inform us.

JPM

Combining organic amendments with soil solarization is a nonchemical approach to improvement of the control of soilborne plant diseases. Pathogen control in solarized- amended soil is attributed to a combination of thermal killing and enhanced generation of biotoxic volatile compounds.

Utilization of Soil Solarization

Publication: Grinstein, A. 1992. Introduction of a new agricultural technology - soil solarization - in Israel. Phytoparasitica 20.Suppl.:127S-131S.

Modes of Application

Publication: Grinstein, A. & A. Hetzroni. 1991. The technology of soil solarization. in J. Katan & J. E. DeVay (eds.) Soil Solarization. CRC Publications, Boca Raton: 159-170.

Highlights on Recent Studies and Progress in Soil Solarization

January 1998

Summarized by J. Katan, A. Grinstein and A. Gamliel

The Soil Solarization (Solar heating)

(Updated April 2013)

The Soil Solarization Home site is

dedicated to the memory of

Dr. Avi Grinstein

IN MEMORY OF

Prof. Robert Kenneth

List of Puplications

M. Sc. Dissertation
1. Sztejnberg, A. 1963. M. Sc. Thesis. Survival of the fungus Phytophthora infestans  (Mont.) de Bary - the causal agent of late blight disease of potato - in Solanaceae wild  plants between grow seasons. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.