As farmers and retailers battle soybean cyst nematode (SCN), the emphasis continues to be on using an integrated strategy including resistant soybean varieties, crop rotation with non-host crops, and ...

Hermaphrodites are a wild concept for most people to understand, but for scientists, they’re sort of passé. Case in point: nematodes, who have had us beat for millions of years. In a new paper ...

Targeted monitoring, species-specific management, and integrated control strategies help growers reduce nematode pressure and ...

In natural ecosystems, bacterial communities play an important role in nutrient cycling, primary production and decomposition 1. Bacteria are also heavily consumed by bacterivorous nematodes that are ...

LAS VEGAS — Some species of parasitic roundworms can catapult themselves high into the air to latch onto fruit flies and other insects. Experiments now reveal that leaping Steinernema carpocapsae ...

Around nine kilometres south of the city of Jaén (Spain), Spanish scientists have found a new species of nematode in the compost at a vegetable garden. The specimens found are extremely small, with ...

Researchers have mapped the physical organization of the brain of a microscopic soil-living nematode worm called Caenorhabditis elegans, creating a new model for the architecture of the animal's brain ...

UC Davis nematologists, including Valerie Williamson, professor emerita in the Department of Plant Pathology, and associate professor Shahid Siddique, Department of Entomology and Nematology, have ...

Scientists have discovered a worm that managed to stretch its short life expectancy — by tens of thousands of years. A tiny roundworm was revived after it was frozen in Siberian permafrost 46,000 ...