Apple Host List

Plant-feeding Nematodes Known to be Associated with:
Apple – Malus spp
Note: These lists are intended as general guidelines. You need to do further research before using them for crop sequence or management decisions. Please consider that: all the listed nematodes may not occur in all geographic regions, or fields within a geographic region, where the crop is grown cultivars or rootstocks may have been developed or selected that have resistance or tolerance to specific nematodes there may be races of a particular nematode species that are either virulent or avirulent to a plant species you need to determine which nematodes are present in the soil before using this list to make management decisions.
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Cacopaurus pestis	Pratylenchus coffeae
Criconemoides curvata	Pratylenchus crenatus
Criconema mutabile	Pratylenchus neglectus
Mesocriconema xenoplax	Pratylenchus penetrans
Helicotylenchus digonicus	Pratylenchus pratensis
Helicotylenchus erythrinae	Pratylenchus scribneri
Hemicriconemoides sp.	Pratylenchus sp.
Hemicycliophora typica	Pratylenchus thornei
Heterodera sp.	Pratylenchus vulnus
Longidorus sp.	Pungentus angulatus
Meloidogyne sp.	Rotylenchus robustus
	Rotylenchus sp.
Merlinius brevidens	Trichodorus californicus
Merlinius nanus	Trichodorus porosus
Paralongidorus maximus	Trichodorus sp.
Paratrichodorus minor	Trichodorus viruliferous
Paratylenchus amblycephalus	Tylenchorhynchus acutus
Paratylenchus hamatus	Tylenchorhynchus capitatus
Paratylenchus sp.	Tylenchorhynchus clarus
	Tylenchorhynchus claytoni
	Tylenchorhynchus cylindricus
	Tylenchorhynchus dubius
	Tylenchorhynchus maximus
	Tylenchorhynchus sp.
	Xiphinema americanum

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