Abstract Ditylenchus dipsaci is an economically important plant-parasitic nematode affecting European sugar beets. To date, no beet cultivars carrying resistance against D. are available to farmers. find potentially resistant lines restricting reproduction and penetration of , three consecutive in vivo bioassays were carried out. The first experiment determined the rate 79 breeding 14 pre-breed...

Conidia of the endoparasitic nematophagous fungus Drechmeria coniospora adhere to the sensory organs of many nematode species. In some cases the adhesion phase is followed by penetration of the nematode cuticle and subsequent infection. In a study of eight different nematode species and five strains of the fungus only two species were infected: Panagrellus vedivivus was infeted by all strains a...

The anhydrobiotic plant-parasitic nematode Ditylenchus dipsaci undergoes a decrease in permeability (the permeability slump) during the early stages of desiccation and this produces the slow rate of water loss necessary for its survival. There were no changes in annulation spacing, followed in individual nematodes by confocal microscopy, that would account for the permeability slump. Nile Red s...