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Morphological and Molecular Identification of Longidorus euonymus and Helicotylenchus multicinctus from the Rhizosphere of Grapevine and Banana in Greece Cover

Morphological and Molecular Identification of Longidorus euonymus and Helicotylenchus multicinctus from the Rhizosphere of Grapevine and Banana in Greece

Open Access
|Dec 2017

Abstract

Plant-parasitic nematodes such as Longidorus euonymus and Helicotylenchus multicintctus are species widely distributed in central Europe as well as in Mediterranean area. In Greece, both species have been previously reported but no morphometrics or molecular data were available for these species. Nematode surveys in the rhizosphere of grapevines in Athens carried out in 2016 and 2017, yielded a Longidorus species identified as Longidorus euonymus. Similarly, a population of Helicotylenchus multicinctus was detected infecting banana roots from an outdoor crop in Tertsa, Crete. For both species, morphometrics and molecular data of Greek populations were provided, resulting in the first integrative identification of both nematode species based on morphometric and molecular markers, confirming the occurrence of these two nematodes in Greece as had been stated in earlier reports.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/jofnem-2017-068 | Journal eISSN: 2640-396X | Journal ISSN: 0022-300X
Language: English
Page range: 168 - 176
Submitted on: Jun 29, 2017
Published on: Dec 3, 2017
Published by: Society of Nematologists, Inc.
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2017 Emmanuel A. Tzortzakakis, Carolina Cantalapiedra-Navarrete, Pablo Castillo, Juan E. Palomares-Rius, Antonio Archidona-Yuste, published by Society of Nematologists, Inc.
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