Meloidogyne izalcoensis

Meloidogyne izalcoensis	Contents	Rev 08/30/2022
El Salvador Coffee Root-knot Nematode	Classification	Hosts
	Morphology and Anatomy	Life Cycle
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Classification:

Tylenchida Tylenchina Tylenchoidea Heteroderidae Meloidogyninae
Meloidogyne izalcoensis Carneiro, Almeida, Gomes & Hernandez, 2005

a coffee root-knot nematode

Morphology and Anatomy:

	Female:




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

Distribution:

Described from El Salvador. Also reported in Brazil, Asia and Africa.

Economic Importance:

Reported on coffee in El Salvador (Carneiro et al., 2005). One of at least 17 species of Meloidogyne reported on coffee.

Feeding:

Sedentary endoparasite.

Feeding site establishment and development typical of genus.

Hosts:

Type Host: coffee (Coffea arabica).

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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this species, click	If species level data are not available, click for genus level parameters

Meloidogyne izalcoensis induces round galls in coffee roots with egg masses outside the galls, in cotrast to M. exigua which induces round galls with egg masses within the galls (Humphreys-Pereira et al., 2014).

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Management:

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

For plants reported to have some level of resistance to this species, click

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References:

Carneiro, R. M.; Almeida, M. R. A.; Gomes, A. C. M.; Hernandez, A 2005. Meloidogyne izalcoensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Meloidogynidae), a root-knot nematode parasitising coffee in El Salvador. Nematology 7:819-832.

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 nematodeÃ¯Â¿Â½.. Nematology 16:643-661.