While high doses of sawdust alone were phytotoxic to tomato and eggplant, the addition of ammonium sulphate eliminated the phytotoxicity. Ammonium sulphate alone was somewhat effective as a control, but not as much so as sawdust alone. Vincente et al. The results of the nematicides are consistent with other watermelon and squash studies that found carbofuran treated plots giving higher yields, while another study found phenamiphos-treated plots giving higher yields. This study only found differences among treatments in the weight of the fruit.
Resistant cultivars are available.
Soil amendments such as animal manure and cotton seed cakes have been used with success to control the reniform nematode. In glasshouse experiments, peanut was a poor host of two populations of R. reniformis. Short periods of flooding of tomato pots experiments reduced populations of the reniform nematode. The nematode was also eradicated from infested soil following treatment with 50 C hot water for 5 minutes. These were compared to a general nematode control of DBCP applied at the same rates.