Meloidogyne salasi

Meloidogyne salasi	Contents	Rev 10/14/2008
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Classification:

      Tylenchida
       Tylenchina
        Tylenchoidea
         Heteroderidae
          Meloidogyninae
        Meloidogyne salasi (Lopez, 1984)

Morphology and Anatomy:

Female: Oval perineal pattern with inner coarse striae and unbroken smooth, fine outer striae. Dorsal arch high and rectangular. Lateral lines absent in perineal pattern.

Male: aerolated lateral field.

(Lopez, 1984).

Distribution:

Tropical species reported only in Costa Rica and Panama (Bridge et al., 1990).

Feeding:

Feeding site establishment and development typical of genus.

Hosts:

Rice (Oryza sativa) and jungle rice (Echinocloa colonum) and Homolepis aturensis are good hosts.

Poor hosts include bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon and C. plectostachyus), Chinese sweet cane (Saccharum sinense), gama grasses (Tripsacum laxum), Guinea grass (Panicum maximum), millet (Echinocloa polystachya), pangola grass (Digitaria decumbens), signal grasses (Brachiaria rugolosa, B. ruziziensis and B. zuazilandensis), and other grasses such as Kazungula sp., Leucaena leucocephala, and Saccharum sinensis (Lopez, 1984).

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Life Cycle:

Sedentary endoparasites.

Female body ruptures root cortex and may protrude with the egg mass on the root surface.

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Damage:

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Management:

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References:

Bridges, J., M. LUC, and A. Plowright.1990. Nematode parasites of rice. Pp. 69-108 in M. Luc, R. A. Sikora, and J. Bridge eds. Plant parasitic nematodes in tropical and subtropical agriculture. Wallingford, UK: CAB International.
Lopez, R. 1984. Meloidogyne salasi sp. n. (Nematoda: Meloidogynidae), a new parasite of rice (Oryza sativa L.) from Costa Rica and Panama. Turrialba 34:275-286.