Rev 07/02/2024
Tylenchida Tylenchina Tylenchoidea Meloidogynidae Meloidogyninae
Meloidogyne subarctica Bernard, 1981
Review general characteristics of the genus Meloidogyne.
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
Collected from galls on the roots of dunegrass (Leymus mollis) in the Aleutian islands (located west of the Alaskan (USA) peninsula).
Sedentary endoparasite.
Feeding site establishment and development typical of genus.
Type Host: American dunegrass (Leymus mollis)
Ecophysiological Parameters:
Chromosome number n=18. Reproduction by amphimixis (Bernard, 1981; Triantaphyllou, 1985; Subbotin et al., 2021).
Resistance
Host Plant Resistance, Non-hosts and Crop Rotation alternatives:
Bernard, E. 1981. Heteroderoidea (Nematoda) from the Aleutian Islands. J. Nematology 13:499-513.
Subbotin, S.A. Palomares-Rius, J.E., Castillo, P. 2021. Systematics of Root-knot Nematodes (Nematoda: Meloidogynidae). Nematology Monographs and Perspectives Vol 14: D.J. Hunt and R.N. Perry (eds) Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands 857p.
Triantaphyllou, A.C. 1985. Gametogenesis and the chromosomes of Meloidogune nataliei: not typical of other root-knot nematodes. J. Nematology 17:1-5.
Triantaphyllou, A.C. 1985. Cytogenetics, cytotaxonomy and phylogeny of root-knot nematodes. In Sasser, J.N. & Carter, C.C. (eds) An Advanced Treatiswe on Meloidogyne.Vol 1. Biology and Control.N.C. State Universty Graphics, Raleigh, N.C. USA.