Anguina graminis

Anguina graminis	Contents	Rev 12/16/2024
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Classification:

Chromadorea
       Rhabditida
       Tylenchina
        Tylenchoidea
         Anguinidae

Anguininae

Anguina graminis (Hardy, 1850) Filijev, 1936

Synonyms:

Morphology and Anatomy:

Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:

Hosts:

Festuca rubra.

The following are listed as hosts in various literature sources:

Agrostis sp.	Bent Grass
Agrostis stolonifera	Creeping Bent Grass

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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this species, click	If species level data are not available, click for genus level parameters

Leaf galls induced by Anguina graminis on Festuca rubra L. are exploited by Rathayibacter festucae (type strain VKM Ac-1390(T) UCM Ac-619(T)) which is a coryneform actinomycete. Rathayibacter festucae is easily recognized among other yellow-pigmented rathayibacters because of its rose-orange-colored colonies (Dorofeeva et al., 2002).

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Management:

Host Plant Resistance, Non-hosts and Crop Rotation alternatives:

For plants reported to have some level of resistance to this species, click

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References:

Dorofeeva LV, Evtushenko LI, Krausova VI, Karpov AV, Subbotin SA, Tiedje JM. 2002. Rathayibacter caricis sp nov and Rathayibacter festucae sp nov., isolated from the phyllosphere of Carex sp and the leaf gall induced by the nematode Anguina graminis on Festuca rubra L., respectively. International J. Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52:1917-1923.

Goodey, J. B., M. T. Franklin, and D. J. Hooper. 1965. T. Goodey's: The Nematode Parasites of Plants Catalogued Under Their Hosts. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Farnham Royal, Bucks, England. Third Edition