UC Davis nematologists, including Valerie Williamson, professor emerita in the Department of Plant Pathology, and associate ...

Nematologists have long wondered how the the Northern root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne hapla) is able to infect such a wide ...

Plant removal experiments are recognized as effective methods for understanding ecosystem functions of plant species under vegetation change scenarios. To minimize disturbance, the most prominent ...

Root-knot nematodes pose a significant threat to agriculture, infecting a wide range of crops and causing billions of dollars in losses annually. These parasites induce the formation of galls on plant ...

Horrors! The VegHeadz Demonstration Garden at the UF/IFAS Extension Leon County office has a plague of nematodes. The mention of nematodes is among those things such as bacterial wilt and nut sedge ...

Plant parasitic nematodes are microscopic soil-dwelling creatures that damage crops by feeding on their roots. Scientists have now developed a greener and more efficient means of eradicating them, ...

A new study opens new avenues for combating soybean cyst nematodes, the most damaging pest for U.S. soybean crops. Targeting a newly discovered vulnerability in the signals that cyst nematodes use to ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 65, No. 1 (2014), pp. 131-141 (11 pages) Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) crops can be severely damaged due to parasitism by the root-knot nematode (RKN) Meloidogyne ...

Loukrakpam Bina Chanu and N Mohilal MeiteiAmong the most elusive yet impact-ful organisms are nema- todes, microscopic roundworms that silently infiltrate plant roots, often going unnoticed until the ...

Ecological Bulletins, No. 25, Soil Organisms as Components of Ecosystems (1977), pp. 340-347 (8 pages) The distribution of plant roots and nematodes was investigated in a 15-20 year old Scots pine ...