Meloidogyne arabicida

Meloidogyne arabicida	Contents	Rev 10/22/2023
Costa Rican Coffee Root-knot Nematode	Classification	Hosts
	Morphology and Anatomy	Life Cycle
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Classification:

Tylenchida Tylenchina Tylenchoidea Heteroderidae Meloidogyninae Meloidogyne arabicida. Lopez & Salazar, 1989

a coffee Root-knot Nematode

Review general characteristics of the genus Meloidogyne.

Morphology and Anatomy:

	Female:




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

Distribution:

Described from the Turrialba and San Isidro Valleys of Costs Rica. Distribution apparently limited (Subbotin et al., 2021).

Feeding:

Sedentary endoparasite.

Feeding site establishment and development typical of genus.

Hosts:

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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Besides causing direct damage to coffee, M. arabicida is involved in a disease complex with Fusarium oxysporum which is known as corchosis or corky root and is expressed as a corky texture and cracking sympoms on main and secondary roots (Humphreys-Pereira et al., 2014).

	Corky root symptoms of the disease complex induced by Meloidogyne arabicida and Fusarium oxysporum. photograph from Humphreys-Pereira et al., 2014.

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Management:

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

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References:

Humphreys-Pereira, D.A., Flores-Chavez, L., Gomez, M., Salazar, L. Gomez-Alpizar, L.E., Elling, A.A. 2014. Meloidogyne lopezi n.sp. (Nematode: Meloidogynidae, a new root-knot nematode. Nematology 16:643-661.