Selectivin found to kill crop-parasitizing nematodes without killing other organisms in the soil

Friday, May 26, 2023 - 09:32 in Biology & Nature

A team of horticulturists affiliated with a host of institutions in Canada and the U.S. has found a chemical that kills crop-parasitizing nematodes in the soil without killing other organisms. The study is reported in the journal Nature. The editors of the journal have also published a Research Briefing in the same issue outlining the work done by the team on this new effort.

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