PLANT-PARASITIC NEMATODES OF CROPS IN BELIZE

Citation
J. Bridge et al., PLANT-PARASITIC NEMATODES OF CROPS IN BELIZE, Nematropica, 26(2), 1996, pp. 111-119
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
Journal title
ISSN journal
00995444
Volume
26
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
111 - 119
Database
ISI
SICI code
0099-5444(1996)26:2<111:PNOCIB>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
Plant nematode surveys were made at 55 farm sites in six Districts of Belize, Central America, during February, November and December, 1993. Crops sampled included banana and plantain, cassava, citrus, coconut, cocoyam, corn, ginger, papaya, passion fruit, peanut, pigeon pea, pin eapple, potato, rice, sugar cane, yam, and vegetables (beans, cabbage, carrot, cowpea, onion, peppers, tomato, okra, cucumber, pea, eggplant ). Soil and root samples also were taken from primary forest soils. A total of 47 plant-parasitic nematode species were identified. Of these , the important crop pests found were the root-knot nematodes, Meloido gyne arenaria, M. incognita, and Meloidogyne sp., on vegetable and oth er crops; the root lesion nematodes, Pratylenchus brachyurus on a rang e of crops, P. coffeae on yams and plantain, P. zeae on rice and corn; the burrowing nematode, Radopholus similis, on banana and plantain, t he led ring nematode, Rhadinaphelenchus cocophilus, on coconut; the re niform nematode, Rotylenchulus reniformis, on papaya, beans, cowpea an d pigeon pea in particular; the citrus nematode, Tylenchulus semipenet rans on citrus; and some spiral nematodes especially Helicotylenchus m ulticinctus and H. mucronatus on a variety of crops. Many of the nemat odes were widely distributed throughout Belize on different crops, alt hough some were specific to certain hosts (e.g. R. cocophilus on cocon ut, Radopholus similis on banana and plantain, and T. semipenetrans on citrus).