BackgroundRoot-knot nematodes (RKN), genus Meloidogyne, are plant parasitic worms that have the ability to transform root vascular cylinder cells into hypertrophied, multinucleate and metabolically over-active feeding cells. Redifferentiation into feeding cells is the result of a massive transcriptional reprogramming of root cells targeted by...
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2018 (v1)Journal articleUploaded on: December 4, 2022
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2019 (v1)Journal article
Current restrictions on the use of chemical nematicides have led to an increase in root-knot nematode (RKN) damages in horticultural crops. The effects of two sorghums as summer cover crops, Sorghum sudanense sudan-grass cv. 'Piper' or sudangrass hybrid [S. bicolor x S. sudanense] '270911', respectively with low and high dhurrin contents, were...
Uploaded on: December 4, 2022