Figure 1:
Roots of dittany plants (four in the left) and tomato (one in the right) after a two month period of infection with eggs of M. javanica.
Table 1:
Number of galls and egg masses on roots of tomato and dittany plants inoculated with 2,500 eggs of Meloidogyne populations.
| Nematode population | Tomato cv. ACE | Dittany | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galls | Egg masses | Galls | Egg masses | |||||
| Exp 1 | Exp 2 | Exp 1 | Exp 2 | Exp 1* | Exp 2* | Exp 1 | Exp 2 | |
| M. javanica-field | 235 | 186 | 83 | 84 | 0 (12) | 0 (6) | 0 | 0 |
| M. javanica-virulent | 287 | 204 | 110 | 126 | 0 (9) | 0 (6) | 0 | 0 |
| M. incognita-G | 243 | 170 | 117 | 98 | 0 (5) | 0 (5) | 0 | 0 |
| M. incognita-K | 257 | 208 | 120 | 146 | 0 (10) | 0 (5) | 0 | 0 |
| M. arenaria | 265 | 196 | 79 | 110 | 0 (10) | 0 (6) | 0 | 0 |
| M. hapla | 178 | 130 | 98 | 76 | 0 (12) | 0 (6) | 0 | 0 |
| M. luci | 288 | 220 | 96 | 128 | 0 (12) | 0 (10) | 0 | 0 |