First report of a stunt nematode Tylenchorhynchus zeae on corn in Gansu Province, China
Abstract
During a survey of plant parasitic nematodes in 2019, at Gansu Province, China, the stunt nematode Tylenchorhynchus zeae was found parasitizing corn seedlings. Females, males and juveniles of T. zeae were observed on soil and roots samples of corn after processing and extraction. This population of stunt nematodes was identified based on morphological and by sequencing the ITS1 region of rDNA and D2/D3 fragments of the 28 S rRNA. The ITS1 and the D2/D3 sequences of this population, shared 99.00 to 99.05% and 99.43 to 99.73% of similarity with sequences corresponding to T. zeae in GenBank, respectively. This is the first report of T. zeae infecting corn in Gansu Province, northwest China.
© 2020 Zhi Peng Xu, Hui Xia Li, Yong Gang Liu, Bao Cang Ren, Chun Hui Ni, Jin Hui Ma, published by Society of Nematologists, Inc.
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