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Ethylene-induced volatile inhibitors causing soil fungistasis

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THE phenomenon of soil fungistasis1–3, a term introduced by Dobbs and Hinson4 to describe the failure of almost any fungus propagule to germinate in the upper layer of non-amended natural or cultivated soil, has been attributed to volatile inhibitors. Evidence implicating volatile unsaturated hydrocarbons was first obtained from the observation that when soil blocks are incubated in closed containers over either silver nitrate or mercuric perchlorate solutions, they exhibit reduced fungistasis activity against conidia of Arthrobotrys oligospora2.

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BALIS, C. Ethylene-induced volatile inhibitors causing soil fungistasis. Nature 259, 112–114 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259112a0

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