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Carbonyl Sulphide, a Volatile Fungitoxicant from Nabam in Soil

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NABAM (disodium ethylenebisdithiocarbamate) in both water and agar has been shown to produce fungitoxic vapours1–3. Hydrogen sulphide and carbon disulphide were identified in the vapour above aqueous nabam solutions, but neither could account for its high fungitoxicity2,4,5. On the basis of its infra-red spectrum, ethylenediamine was also interpreted as being present4. The high fungitoxicity of the vapour to spores of Stemphylium sarcinaeforme and Sclerotinia fructicola suspended in water above nabam solutions1 could then be accounted for by assuming that the amine and carbon disulphide recombined in the spore drop to form the toxic dithiocarbamate4,6.

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    WILLIAM MOJE & D. E. MUNNECKE

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MOJE, W., MUNNECKE, D. & RICHARDSON, L. Carbonyl Sulphide, a Volatile Fungitoxicant from Nabam in Soil. Nature 202, 831–832 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/202831a0

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