“…a. the FAM signal showing specificity for P. neglectus, Gsy24S, Sd12922, Sdwg and Xz9 represent four populations of P. neglectus; nontarget nematodes including P. thornei, P. coffeae, P. brachyurus, P. loosi, P. parazeae, P. scribneri, P. vulnus, P. zeae, Meloidogyne incognita, M. enterolobii, Heterodera fengi, Aphelenchoides besseyi and Caenorhabditis elegans; b. the ROX signal showing specificity for P. thornei. Gsy24L and Xjdm represent two populations of P. thornei; non-target nematodes including P. neglectus, P. coffeae, P. brachyurus, P. loosi, P. parazeae, P. scribneri, P. vulnus, P. zeae, M. incognita, M. enterolobii, H. fengi, A. besseyi and C. elegans Pratylenchus species (De Luca et al 2011;Wang et al 2015), making it difficult to design species-specific primers. Intraspecific variations in the ITS-rDNA of P. neglectus and P. thornei could reach 7% and 6% respectively (De Luca et al 2011).…”