Journal of Nematology  

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Kingsley Osei, Simon R. Gowen, Barbara Pembroke, Rick L. Brandenburg, David L. Jordan

Root-knot nematode is an important pest in agricultural production worldwide. Crop rotation is the only management strategy in some production systems, especially for resource poor farmers in developing countries. A series of experiments was conducted in ... see more

Rushabh A. Doshi, Roger L. King, Gary W. Lawrence

Rotylenchulus reniformis is one of the major nematode pests capable of reducing cotton yields by more than 60%, causing estimated losses that may exceed millions of dollars U.S. Therefore, early detection of nematode numbers is necessary to reduce these l... see more

Nathan E. Schroeder, Ann E. MacGuidwin

For this report, we examined the toxic effects of three plant-derived isothiocyanate compounds on second-stage juveniles ( J2) of Heterodera glycines. We found significant differences among compounds in the concentration required to affect nematodes, acco... see more

Sabrina Brown, Gregory Yeckel, Robert Heinz, Kerry Clark, Dave Sleper, Melissa G. Mitchum

The soybean cyst nematode (SCN), Heterodera glycines, is the most damaging pathogen of soybean. Methods to phenotype soybean varieties for resistance to SCN are currently very laborious and time consuming. Streamlining a portion of this phenotyping proces... see more

Liesbeth M. Schmidt, Thomas E. Hewlett, April Green, Lee J. Simmons, Karen Kelley, Mark Doroh, Salliana R. Stetina

Rotylenchulus reniformis is one of 10 described species of reniform nematodes and is considered the most economically significant pest within the genus, parasitizing a variety of important agricultural crops. Rotylenchulus reniformis collected from cotton... see more

C. H. Bae, R. T. Robbins, A. L. Szalanski

The D2-D3 expansion segments of the 28S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) were sequenced and compared to predict secondary structures for Hoplolaiminae species based on free energy minimization and comparative sequence analysis. The free energy based prediction method... see more

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