Treatment of Nematodes with Ozone Gas: A Sustainable Alternative to Nematicides

This study tests Ozone as a Nematicides’ alternative. Nematode-infected soil samples were treated with ascending doses of O3 by submerging the outlet of an “MB1000 Ozone Generator” in the 40 ml samples; then to test the O3 nematicidal effect by gas fumigation, Ozone gas was released into a sealed bag containing 80 g of each of the 6 nematode-infected soil samples with ascending doses and a repetition of each. With water-ozonation, 900 mg O3 were needed to kill 100% of nematodes, and the O3–Nematodes LD50 was identified by 420 mg. With the second experiment, O3 soil fumigation for 50 minutes at a dose of 1,125 mg in an air volume of 5 litres, were needed to control 95% of living nematodes.