Experiments were conducted to determine the effects of plant confinement, soil type, watering practices, stage of seed germination, inoculum level, and method of applying inoculum on stem nematode (Ditylenchus dipsaci) infection of alfalfa (Medicago sativa) seedlings grown in soil. Results indicated that (i) confining seedlings together with the nematodes in small vials offered no advantage ove...

spective haptenic sugars prevented their adsorption by the gelatinous nlatrix or the egg shells, whereas incubation with sugars other than the correct hapten inhibitor did not interfere with binding of the lectins. These last findings lend support to the idea that the described lectin-binding pat tern was not a result of nonspecific adsorption or uptake by the gelatinous matr ix or the egg shel...

2. De Grisse, A., and P. A. A. Loof. 1965. Revision of the genus Criconemoides (Nematoda). Mededelingen van de Landbouwhogeschool en Deopzoekingsstations van de Staat Gent 30:577-603. 3. Ebsary, B. A. 1980. Generic revision of Criconematidae (Nematoda): Nothocriconema and related genera with proposals for Nothocriconemella n. gen. and Paracriconema n. gen. Canadian Journal of Zoology 59:1201-14...

The potato rot nematode, Ditylenchus destructor, is a very destructive nematode pest on many agriculturally important crops worldwide, but the molecular characterization of its parasitism of plant has been limited. The effectors involved in nematode parasitism of plant for several sedentary endo-parasitic nematodes such as Heterodera glycines, Globodera rostochiensis and Meloidogyne incognita h...

Five field trials were conducted in Italy in 1983 and 1984 to test the efficacy of isazofos and benfuracarb in controlling Heterodera carotae on carrot, Ditylenchus dipsaci on onion, and Meloidogyne javanica on tomato. Methyl isothiocyanate (MIT) was tested against H. carotae and M. javanica. Single (10 kg a.i./ha) and split (5 + 5 kg a.i./ha) applications of isazofos gave yield increases of ca...