Cowpea Host List

Plant-feeding Nematodes Known to be Associated with:
Cowpea – Vigna unguiculata
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 gracilis	Paratrichodorus minor
Belonolaimus longicaudatus	Paratrichodorus nanus
Criconema mutabile	Paratylenchus sp.
Criconemoides obtusicaudatum	Pratylenchus brachyurus
Criconemoides sp.	Pratylenchus neglectus
Ditylenchus destructor	Pratylenchus penetrans
Helicotylenchus dihystera	Pratylenchus pratensis
Helicotylenchus multicinctus	Pratylenchus sp.
Helicotylenchus sp.
Hemicycliophora arenaria	Pratylenchus thornei
Hemicycliophora sp.	Pratylenchus vulnus
Heterodera cajani	Radopholus similis
Heterodera ciceri	Rotylenchulus parvus
Heterodera daverti	Rotylenchulus reniformis
Heterodera glycines	Rotylenchulus sp.
Heterodera schachtii	Scutellonema brachyurum
	Scutellonema bradys
Hirschmanniella sp.	Trichodorus porosus
Hoplolaimus columbus	Trichodorus sp.
Meloidogyne africana
Meloidogyne arenaria	Tylenchorhynchus acutus
Meloidogyne hapla	Tylenchorhynchus clarus
Meloidogyne incognita	Tylenchorhynchus sp.
Meloidogyne javanica	Xiphinema americanum
Meloidogyne kikuyensis	Xiphinema vanderlindei
Meloidogyne sp.

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