Characterization of Meloidogyne enterolobii intercepted from baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) seedlings from Thailand during Japanese import plant quarantine inspection.

ABSTRACT: In April 2019, baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) seedlings from Thailand, exhibiting galls on the roots, were intercepted during an import plant quarantine inspection at Chubu Centrair International Airport, Japan. Root-knot nematodes (RKNs) were extracted from the galled roots of baobab seedlings and identified by morphological, morphometrical and molecular methods as the guava root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne enterolobii Yang & Eisenback. The morphology and morphometrics of the intercepted population were similar to those of the original and subsequent descriptions of M. enterolobii. The sequences of D2-D3 of 28S rRNA, mtDNA intergenic COII-16S rRNA and COI genes obtained in this study matched well (99-100% similarity) with each of the gene sequences of M. enterolobii

SUBMITTER: Sekimoto S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10750247 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature