Identification of specific soil properties that affect the accumulation and toxicity of ammonia toVerticillium dahliae

The accumulation of ammonia in soil amended with meat and bone meal was previously shown to kill microsclerotia of Verticillium dahliae Kleb. This laboratory study examined to what extent cation-exchange capacity, moisture, organic carbon and nitrification, and high levels of sand and bulk density affect the accumulation of ammonia. Two soils were used as models: site B soil a loamy sand of low organic carbon content that when amended with meat...