Tall Fescue Online Monograph

Nematode

Genus

North Carolina†

Alabama‡

Arkansas§

---------- % ----------

Stubby-root nematode

Paratrichodorus

50

53

12

Stunt nematode

Tylenchorhynchus

45

18

27

Spiral nematode

Helicotylenchus

45

78

0

Dagger nematode

Xiphinema

45

51

0

Lance nematode

Hoplolaimus

25

13

2

Ring nematode

Mesocriconema

5

-

2

Pin nematode

Paratylenchus

5

9

5

Lesion nematode

Pratylenchus

0

11

11

Root-knot nematode

Meloidogyne

-

7

2

Cyst nematode

Heterodera

-

6

0

† Soil samples from 40 field sites were collected in 1959 and 1960 (McGlohon et al., 1961).

‡ Soil samples from 87 and 86 field sites were collected in 1982 and 1983, respectively. Percentages are the means of the 2 yr (Pedersen and Rodriguez-Kabana, 1984).

§ Percentages are the means of 32 samples collected in Fayetteville and 34 samples collected in Hope, AR in 2006 (Olivera and West, personal communication, 2007).