Hirschmanniella imamuri

 

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Rev 01/09/2024

Classification Hosts
Morphology and Anatomy Life Cycle

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Classification:

        Tylenchina
        Tylenchoidea
         Pratylenchidae
          Pratylenchinae
           Hirschmanniella imamuri Sher, 1968

 

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Females:

Males:

Juveniles:

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Distribution:

Hirschmanniella imamuri, like H. diversa, an important pest of lotus in Japan.

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Economic Importance:

Important pest in lotus (Nelumbo nucfiera) cultivation in Japan (Takagi et al., 2023).

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Feeding:

Migratory endoparasite of roots.  Juveniles and adults enter at root tip  of rhizomes.. 

 

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Hosts:

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 Besides parasitizing Indian lotus, Hirshcmanniells imamuri also parasitizes rice grown in flooded fields.


 
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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Damage:

Hirshcmanniells diversa and H, imamuri are considered causal agents of blackening disease or browning tuber disease "Renkon Kurokawa-Senchu-Byo" in Indian lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). Lotus cultivars include flowering forms with high value as ornamentals end edible forms with the rhizome as the edible portion. (Uematsu et al., 2020). Hirschmannielaa imamuri, like H. oryzae, is also a pasraite of rice; both cause root-rot in rice roots..

Lotus is an aquastic plant grown and cultivated in ponds or flooded fields. Edible lotus rhizomes are an important food source in Japan.

The nematodes are attracted to to young root tips of  rhizomes and create narrow cavities as they invade over a period of 4-5 hours. Host cells adjacent to the cavitis are destroyed during the during infestation. Following contact with the nematodes, host cell walls and cellular contents became electron-dense and less defined, likely due to digestive enzymes secreted by the invading nematodes. Nematodes invade to a depth of about 1mm in 24 hr \ but apparently does not penetrate deeper into the rhizome (Uematsu et al., 2020)..  The infection results in blackish-brown blothces as the rhizome matures.

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Management:

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

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References:

Sher, S. A. 1968. Revision of the genus Hirschmanniella Luc & Goodey, 1963 (Nematoda: Tylenchoidea). Nematologica 14:243-275.

Takagi, M., Sekimoto, S., Mizukubu, T., Wari, D., Akiba, M., Perry, R.N., Toyota, K. 2023. Geographical distribution and phylogenic relationships of Hirschmanniella diversa Sher (Nematoda: Pratylenchidae) in Japan. Nematology 55:45-58.

Uematsu, S., Yabu, T., Yao, M., Kurihara, T., Koga, H. 2020. Ultrastructure of Hirschmanniella diversa early-stage infection in browning rhizomes of Indian lotus. J. Nematology 52: | DOI: 10.21307/jofnem-2020-055
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Revised: January 09, 2024.