A molecular beacon real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for the identification of M. chitwoodi, M. fallax, and M. minor.

ABSTRACT: Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are major pests of many important crops around the world. In the Northwestern region of the United States of America (USA), Meloidogyne chitwoodi causes economic losses in potatoes because the nematodes can infect the tubers, which leads to potato galling and reductions in marketable yield. Meloidogyne chitwoodi is a quarantine pathogen in certain potato export markets, and there is little industry tolerance for the presence of this nematode. Recently, two Meloidogyne species that are not known to be present in agricultural fields in the USA were detected on golf turfgrasses in California and Washington. These species, M. fallax and M. minor, are morphologically similar to M. chitwoodi and can infect po

SUBMITTER: Anderson SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9994647 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature