Nematodes produce hundreds of distinct effectors, providing redundancy and a capacity for rapid adaptation. "You take one effector away and a nematode laughs and says, 'I've got 10 more,'" he said.

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 ...

Photo courtesy of Purdue University. Lei Zhang, Assistant Professor of Plant Nematology at Purdue University, is on the lookout for the soil-borne roundworm called soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Zhang ...

A photo of a cyst nematode's head viewed through a high-power microscope shows its esophageal glands, which produce effectors it uses to infect host plants. The image was digitally edited to highlight ...

There are many species of nematodes of which a few hundred species attack plants and animals. Root knot nematode is a microscopic worm that is non-segmented, i.e., if you magnified it many times, it ...

A photo of a cyst nematode's head viewed through a high-power microscope shows its esophageal glands, which produce effectors it uses to infect host plants. The image was digitally edited to ...

Pro Farm Group introduces ARINO™ insecticide/nematicide, for the management of nematodes and wireworms in potatoes, onions and other bulb and tuberous vegetables ...

Nematode communities have been trusted indicators of soil health for decades, but the process of identifying types and numbers in any given soil sample remains costly and time consuming, says Ziad ...

That also means growers should be ready for their best opportunity to help manage some yield-sapping problems. “We have seedling diseases, nematodes, and, in some cases, cotton leafroll dwarf virus,” ...

THE following is an outline of a method of obtaining large numbers of the larvæ of nematodes parasitic in sheep in media the composition of which can be much more accurately controlled than any ...

To top it off, weed control is doubly important for fields at risk for soybean cyst nematode (SCN), as many common winter annual weeds host SCN. Learn how to get ahead of winter annual weeds (and ...