Integrative diagnosis, biological observations, and histopathology of the fig cyst nematode Heteroderafici Kirjanova (1954) associated with Ficuscarica L. in southern Italy.

ABSTRACT: Morpho-biological notes and histopathology, based on LM and SEM observations, of the fig cyst nematode Heteroderafici isolated from Ficuscarica roots, collected in home and public gardens of Apulia region, southern Italy, are described and illustrated. Seventy-five localities throughout the Apulia region were sampled and one-quarter of the sampled localities had fig roots infested with H.fici, with population densities ranging from 44 to 180 cysts/100 ml of soil. All attempts to detect H.fici on ornamental Ficus spp. as well as on imported bonsai in Italy were unsuccessful. Morphometric characters of the Italian population conform to those of the type and re-description populations reported for H.fici. Molecular analysis using ITS, D2-D3 expansion

SUBMITTER: Fanelli E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6389869 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature