The root-knot nematodes on root vegetables

Abstract

Root vegetables have been present in our country from the earliest times. Paleobotanical sources indicate the presence of seeds of plants of the family Apiaceae (carrots or parsnips) from the 6th millennium BC from the Belo Brdo site. The greatest damage to these plants is caused by nematodes of the genus Meloidogyne, whose larvae burrow into the roots and transform into adult organisms inside the tissue, causing tissue deformation, tumor formation and can completely jeopardize vegetable yields. The populations of M. hapla were found on carrots and parsnips from the vicinity of Leskovac and Belgrade, respectively and they are morphologically characterized. The larval morphometric data show no significant differences between the populations however, M. hapla from parsnips shows more variations in the female perineal pattern, which is a characteristic of the species.

Status nematoda korijenovih kvržica roda Meloidogyne u Hrvatskoj, s posebnim osvrtom na karantenske vrste

“…The species M. arenaria, M. incognita, M. javanica, and M. hapla were later confirmed in the greenhouses (Grujičić, 1975). The recent studies in Serbia have confirmed four species, M. incognita and M. arenaria (on potatoes and tomatoes), M. hapla (on carrots and parsnips), and M. luci, recorded on tomato in a greenhouse (Bačić et al, 2016(Bačić et al, , 2022(Bačić et al, , 2023Milovanović et al, 2017).…”