Meloidogyne brevicauda

  

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Tea or Indian Root-knot Nematode Classification Hosts
Morphology and Anatomy Life Cycle
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Classification:

      Chromadorea
       Rhabditida
       Tylenchina
        Tylenchoidea
          Meloidogynidae
           Meloidogyninae
                 

Meloidogyne brevicauda Loos, 1953

 

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Morphology and Anatomy:

 

 

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Distribution:

Reported initially from Sri Lanka and later from several Asian countries (Subbotin et al., 2021).

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Economic Importance:

 

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Feeding:

 

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Hosts:

.Type Hosrt: Tea (Camellia sinensis)

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Life Cycle:

 

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Damage:

 

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Resistance

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References:

Loos, C.A. 1953. Melodogyne brevicauda n.sp. a cause of root-knot of mature tea in Ceylon. Proc. Helminth. Soc. Wash. 20:83-91.

Subbotin, S.A., Rius, J.E.P. and Castillo, P., 2021. Systematics of Root-Knot Nematodes (Nematoda: Meloidogynidae). Brill. 857p.

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Revised: December 16, 2024.