Cotton Host List

Plant-feeding Nematodes Known to be Associated with:
Cotton – Gossypium hirsutum
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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Belonolaimus longicaudatus	Pratylenchus brachyurus
Criconema mutabile	Pratylenchus coffeae
Ditylenchus destructor	Pratylenchus delattrei
Helicotylenchus abunaamai	Pratylenchus neglectus
Helicotylenchus digonicus	Pratylenchus penetrans
Helicotylenchus dihystera	Pratylenchus sp.
Helicotylenchus erythrinae	Pratylenchus thornei
Helicotylenchus microlobus	Rotylenchulus parvus
Helicotylenchus multicinctus	Rotylenchulus reniformis
Helicotylenchus sp.	Scutellonema brachyurum
Hoplolaimus columbus	Scutellonema clathricaudatum
Hoplolaimus galeatus	Scutellonema siamense
Hoplolaimus seinhorsti	Trichodorus porosus
Longidorus africanus	Trichodorus sp.
Longidorus sp.	Tylenchorhynchus capitatus
Meloidogyne incognita	Tylenchorhynchus clarus
	T ylenchorhynchus claytoni
Meloidogyne sp.	Tylenchorhynchus cylindricus
Merlinius brevidens	Tylenchorhynchus dubius
Criconemoides sp.	Tylenchorhynchus martini
Paratrichodorus minor	Tylenchorhynchus sp.
Paratylenchus hamatus	Xiphinema americanum

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