Rev 07/02/2024
Tylenchida Tylenchina Tylenchoidea Meloidogynidae Meloidogyninae
Meloidogyne artiellia Franklin, 1961
Review general characteristics of the genus Meloidogyne.
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
Reported from countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. (Subbotin et al., 2021).. Mainly distributed in Mediterranean countries but it has been found in limited areas of Northern Europe, Russia, and China (Martin, 2024).
First reported from cabbage in England (Franklin, 1961) and re-described by Esser et al. (1976).
A-rated pest in California. Currently (as of 2024) not reported in California.
Sedentary endoparasite of plant roots. Incites a giant-cell feeding site.
Type Host: Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata). Reproduces well on cereals in addition to plants in the families Cruciferae and Leguminosae (Di Vito et al., 1985) .
Favorable temperatures for development are 20-25 C, males are present, and the second stage juveniles survive hot dry summer months coiled, in anhydrobiosis (DeVito and Greco,1988a). Melodogyne artiellia has only one generation per year in the Mediterranean region (Castillo et al., 2008).
Ecophysiological Parameters:
A damaging pest of cereals and leguminous crops in Mediterranean countries. Damage caused by M. artiellia can cause complete crop failure in heavily infested fields. Chickpeas are severely damaged, especially if grown in rotation with another important host such as wheat (DiVito and Greco, 1988b, 1988c).
Reported to incite small galls and a proliferation of lateral roots (Franklin, 1961).
Infection by M. artiellia suppresses resistance of Fusarium-resistant chickpea cultivars to Fusarium wilt (Palomares-Rius et al., 2011).
Easily dispersed in infester plant material and containated soil.
Resistance
Host Plant Resistance, Non-hosts and Crop Rotation alternatives:
Castillo, P., Navas-Cortes, J.A., Landa, B.B., Jim�nez-D�az, R.M. and Vovlas, N., 2008. Plant-parasitic nematodes attacking chickpea and their in planta interactions with rhizobia and phytopathogenic fungi. Plant Disease, 92:840-853
DiVito, M., Greco, N., and Zaccheo, G. 1985. On the host range of Meloidogyne artiellia. Nematology Mediterranea. 13: 207-212
DiVito, M., and Greco, N., 1988a. Investigation on the biology of Meloidogyne artiellia. Revue N�matol, 11:223-227
DiiVito, M., Greco, N., 1988b. The relationship between initial population densities of Meloidogyne artiellia and yield of winter and spring chickpea. Nematologia Mediterranea, 16: 163-166.
DiVito, M., Greco, N., 1988c. Effect of population densities of Meloidogyne artiellia on yield of wheat. Nematologia Mediterranea, 16(:167-169
Esser, R.P., Perry, V.G. and Taylor, A.L., 1976. A diagnostic compendium of the genus Meloidogyne (Nematoda: Heteroderidae).
Franklin, M.T. 1961. A British root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne artiella n.sp. J. Helminthology (suppl.):85-92.
Martin, H.J. 2024. California Pest Rating Proposal for Meloidogyne artiellia Franklin (1961) British root-knot nematode. California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, California, USA.
Palomares-Rius, J.E., Castillo, P., Navas-Cortes, J.A., Jimenez-D�az, R.M. and Tena, M., 2011. A proteomic study of in-root interactions between chickpea pathogens: the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne artiellia and the soil-borne fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris race 5. Journal of Proteomics, 74(\:2034-2051.
Subbotin, S.A., Rius, J.E.P. and Castillo, P., 2021. Systematics of Root-Knot Nematodes (Nematoda: Meloidogynidae). Brill. 857p.