- Tylenchida
Tylenchina
Tylenchoidea
Heteroderidae
Punctoderinae
- Globodera tabacum (Lownsbery & Lownsbery,
1954) Behrens 1975
Three subspecies separated by small differences in morphology and in host
range (per Subbotin et al., 2010):
Globodera tabacum solanacearum (type host
horsenettle: Solanum carolinense)
Globodera tabacum tabacum (type host:
tobacco)
Globodera tabacum virginiae (type host:
horsenettle: Solanum carolinense)
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Females: Cyst stage present.
Body globose, spheroidal, with a
short neck and no terminal cone.
All eggs
retained in body (no egg-mass).
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Cysts of Globodera tabacum |
Males: Vermiform; body twisted into a C or S shape.
Lateral
field with four lines.
Spicules greater than 30 µm in length,
distally pointed.
No cloacal tubus.
Tail short, hemispherical. |
Second-stage juveniles: Stylet less than
30 µm long.
Lateral
field with four lines.
Esophageal
glands filling body cavity.
Tail conical, pointed, with terminal half
hyaline.
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Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
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Described originally on tobacco in USA, recorded in Japan in
greenhouse-grown eggplant in 1998 (Uehara and Momota, 2018).
Sedentary semi-endoparasite of roots
Feeding site and feeding patterns typical of genus
Globodera.
Nurse cell system is a multinucleate syncytium.
Tobacco and other Solanaceae.
Very narrow range: potato, tomato, and some weeds.
Ecophysiological Parameters:
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White females and cysts of Globodera tabacum on root
surface. |
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Stunted tobacco plants in a field infested with G. tabacum.
Photograph by J.A. Fox, VPI.
Host Plant Resistance, Non-hosts and Crop Rotation alternatives:
Luc, Maggenti & Fortuner, Rev. Nematol.
11(2):159-176 (1988)
Uehara, T. and Momota, Y. 2018. Reproduction of tobacco cyst nematode
Globodera tabacum on several Japanese tomato cultivars. Nematological
Research 48:27-30.
Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised:
October 04, 2023.