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SOIL fungistasis was originally described by Dobbs and Hinson1 as a widespread phenomenon in which viable fungal spores were unable to germinate in natural soil. Although no precise and universally accepted explanation for this phenomenon is available, fungistasis is usually considered to result from biological activity in soil2,3. Failure to extract an inhibitory factor5–7 has led to the nutritional theory2,3 that the phenomenon can be explained wholly by the lack of nutrients essential for germination in the soil micro-environments of fungal spores. On the other hand, some have suggested that there are inhibitors in soil, the effects of which are nullified by the addition of suitable nutrients4,6,8,9. We report here evidence of a volatile factor in soil which induces fungistasis.
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HORA, T., BAKER, R. Volatile Factor in Soil Fungistasis. Nature 225, 1071–1072 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2251071a0
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