Farmer friendly options for sterilizing farm tools for the control of Xanthomonas Wilt disease of banana
The adoption of tool sterilization using either 3.5% sodium hypochlorite (household bleach) or fire, a core element of the cultural control packages for Xanthomonas wilt (XW) of banana has been poorly adopted hampering XW control in East and Central Africa. Household bleach is costly and not accessib...
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| author | Ocimati, Walter Tazuba, Anthony Fredrick Kadama Blomme, Guy |
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| description | The adoption of tool sterilization using either 3.5% sodium hypochlorite (household bleach) or fire, a core element of the cultural control packages for Xanthomonas wilt (XW) of banana has been poorly adopted hampering XW control in East and Central Africa. Household bleach is costly and not accessible to the rural poor while repeated heating weakens metal blades of garden tools (machetes, knives, and hoes). Identification of economically viable tool sterilization options is thus crucial for XW management. We explored a range of practices including tool insertion for varying time periods into cold and hot ash, fire and boiling water; tool exposure over varying time periods to the sun while under black or transparent plastic sheets; and washing tools with cold water and laundry soap or detergent. Cleaning with household bleach served as a negative control while uncleaned tools as positive control. Like for household bleach, no Xanthomonas vasicola pv. musacearum (Xvm) the causal agent of XW was recovered from tools washed with cold water and different laundry soaps or detergents. Culturing Xvm in varying detergent and soap concentrations (0.00125–0.035 g/mL), only resulted in growth at lower concentrations of 0.00125 and 0.0025 g/mL. The cleaning effect of soap could thus be due to both an anti-bacterial effect and dislodgment of bacteria from tools. Laundry soaps/detergents are cheaper than household bleach and used for various purposes within and across households, including the resource poor and rural households, hence a cheaper and convenient tool sterilization alternative. Tool insertion into boiling water was effective from the 40th second and thus a viable alternative. Heating tools in fire required up to a minute to clear all bacteria. The currently recommended 20–40 s heating could thus be inadequate. Repeated heating for 1 min may also damage tools. Other practices (washing with cold water only, use of solar radiation, repeatedly and forcefully inserting tools into the soil, tool insertion into hot and cold ash for up to 5 min) only reduced Xvm populations on tools, thus not independently recommended. We recommend expanding the tool sterilization options to include washing with soap/ detergents and tool insertion into boiling water for at least 1 min. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1134602025-11-11T17:45:53Z Farmer friendly options for sterilizing farm tools for the control of Xanthomonas Wilt disease of banana Ocimati, Walter Tazuba, Anthony Fredrick Kadama Blomme, Guy bacteria pest control equipment sterilizing farmers control de plagas esterilización del equipo agricultores The adoption of tool sterilization using either 3.5% sodium hypochlorite (household bleach) or fire, a core element of the cultural control packages for Xanthomonas wilt (XW) of banana has been poorly adopted hampering XW control in East and Central Africa. Household bleach is costly and not accessible to the rural poor while repeated heating weakens metal blades of garden tools (machetes, knives, and hoes). Identification of economically viable tool sterilization options is thus crucial for XW management. We explored a range of practices including tool insertion for varying time periods into cold and hot ash, fire and boiling water; tool exposure over varying time periods to the sun while under black or transparent plastic sheets; and washing tools with cold water and laundry soap or detergent. Cleaning with household bleach served as a negative control while uncleaned tools as positive control. Like for household bleach, no Xanthomonas vasicola pv. musacearum (Xvm) the causal agent of XW was recovered from tools washed with cold water and different laundry soaps or detergents. Culturing Xvm in varying detergent and soap concentrations (0.00125–0.035 g/mL), only resulted in growth at lower concentrations of 0.00125 and 0.0025 g/mL. The cleaning effect of soap could thus be due to both an anti-bacterial effect and dislodgment of bacteria from tools. Laundry soaps/detergents are cheaper than household bleach and used for various purposes within and across households, including the resource poor and rural households, hence a cheaper and convenient tool sterilization alternative. Tool insertion into boiling water was effective from the 40th second and thus a viable alternative. Heating tools in fire required up to a minute to clear all bacteria. The currently recommended 20–40 s heating could thus be inadequate. Repeated heating for 1 min may also damage tools. Other practices (washing with cold water only, use of solar radiation, repeatedly and forcefully inserting tools into the soil, tool insertion into hot and cold ash for up to 5 min) only reduced Xvm populations on tools, thus not independently recommended. We recommend expanding the tool sterilization options to include washing with soap/ detergents and tool insertion into boiling water for at least 1 min. 2021-04-16 2021-04-20T14:51:29Z 2021-04-20T14:51:29Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/113460 en Open Access application/pdf Frontiers Media Ocimati, W.; Tazuba, A.F.; Blomme, G. (2021) Farmer friendly options for sterilizing farm tools for the control of Xanthomonas Wilt disease of banana. Frontiers in Agronomy 3: 655824. ISSN: 2673-3218 |
| spellingShingle | bacteria pest control equipment sterilizing farmers control de plagas esterilización del equipo agricultores Ocimati, Walter Tazuba, Anthony Fredrick Kadama Blomme, Guy Farmer friendly options for sterilizing farm tools for the control of Xanthomonas Wilt disease of banana |
| title | Farmer friendly options for sterilizing farm tools for the control of Xanthomonas Wilt disease of banana |
| title_full | Farmer friendly options for sterilizing farm tools for the control of Xanthomonas Wilt disease of banana |
| title_fullStr | Farmer friendly options for sterilizing farm tools for the control of Xanthomonas Wilt disease of banana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Farmer friendly options for sterilizing farm tools for the control of Xanthomonas Wilt disease of banana |
| title_short | Farmer friendly options for sterilizing farm tools for the control of Xanthomonas Wilt disease of banana |
| title_sort | farmer friendly options for sterilizing farm tools for the control of xanthomonas wilt disease of banana |
| topic | bacteria pest control equipment sterilizing farmers control de plagas esterilización del equipo agricultores |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/113460 |
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