University of Georgia professor Richard Hussey has spent 20 years studying a worm-shaped parasite too small to see without a microscope. His discovery is vastly bigger. Hussey and his research team ...

Most Florida gardeners have heard of root knot nematodes but have only a hazy idea of what these pests are and what they do. Nematodes — of which there are an estimated one million species — inhabit ...

Bridget Hatfield (Technical Services Manager, Kemin Crop Technologies): “Nematodes are incredibly diverse and often very ...

Caio Canella Vieira, assistant professor of soybean breeding for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, is leading a new project to develop resilient soybean plants and prevent southern ...

Purdue University researchers have identified several soybean varieties that grow well in areas of the Midwest like southern Indiana and are resistant to root-knot nematodes, a plant-destroying ...

Pasteuria penetrane is a biological control agent of root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.), preventing root invasion by second-stage juveniles (J2s), and eventually causing females sterility and ...

Root-knot nematodes (RKN, Meloidogynespp.) are microscopic roundworms that feed on plant roots. M. incognita, the Southern root-knot nematode, is the most common RKN species in the region. Once RKN ...

CLEMSON – Clemson University researchers, led by nematologist Paula Agudelo, are armed with close to $7 million to design protocols for managing invasive guava root-knot nematodes. The guava root-knot ...

Is sex overrated? It depends on who you ask. In the case of the asexual root-knot nematode, the answer would probably be "yes". Unlike animals such as the American cockroach and leopard shark, which ...

Northern root knot nematode worms (colored) attacking bean roots. Root knot nematodes are major agricultural pests attacking a wide variety of plants including major crops. A new study of the ...

Horrors! The VegHeadz Demonstration Garden at the UF/IFAS Extension Leon County office has a plague of nematodes. The mention of nematodes is among those things such as bacterial wilt and nut sedge ...