Targeted monitoring, species-specific management, and integrated control strategies help growers reduce nematode pressure and ...

Purdue University researchers have identified several soybean varieties that grow well in areas of the Midwest like southern Indiana and are resistant to root-knot nematodes, a plant-destroying ...

Plant-mediated interactions between two belowground agricultural pests have been uncovered: When field mustard plants are infected by root-knot nematodes, they change their defense strategy in a way ...

Grandmother planted marigolds in her vegetable garden because that’s what her mother did. Maybe she heard they were good for pest control, but we know they have no effect on the majority of garden ...

Northern root knot nematode worms (Meloidogyne hapla, colored) attacking bean roots. Root knot nematodes are major agricultural pests attacking a wide variety of plants including major crops. A new ...

Root-knot nematodes, recently confirmed in southern Indiana, can cause extensive damage to soybeans, corn and watermelon, three of the main cash crops in that area of the Midwest. Purdue plant ...

Scientists have purified and identified an attractant for crop-infecting root-knot nematodes from flaxseeds. Their experiments revealed that rhamnogalacturonan-I (RG-I), a flaxseed cell wall component ...

Javier Cabrera, Fernando E. Díaz-Manzano, Marta Barcala, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Janice de Almeida-Engler, Gilbert Engler, Carmen Fenoll and Carolina Escobar Summary The control of plant parasitic ...

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 ...