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Solanum sisymbriifolium - a new approach for the management of plant-parasitic nematodes

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Plant-parasitic nematodes are serious pests causing important crop losses worldwide. After extensive screening of non-tuber-bearing Solanaceae, a resistant trap crop, Solanum sisymbriifolium, with a high production level of hatching agents, seemed an ideal control method for potato cyst nematodes (PCN), Globodera spp. Recently, root-knot nematodes (RKN), Meloidogyne spp., were found coexisting with PCN. Therefore, it is important to find alternative methods to control both nematode genera. The chemical properties of S. sisymbriifolium turns this plant into an excellent candidate for further nematicidal studies and to develop new crop production models. Studies concerning the effects of this plant on plant-parasitic nematodes are presented. Pathogenicity studies with four S. sisymbriifolium cvs (Domino, Pion, Sis 4004 and Sharp) and five Meloidogyne species showed that all cultivars of S. sisymbriifolium studied were resistant to M. chitwoodi and hypersusceptible to M. arenaria and M. hapla. For M. hispanica only cv Pion was susceptible. M. javanica induced different responses: cvs Pion and Sharp were susceptible; cv Domino resistant and Sis 4004 hypersusceptible. The studies of the hatching effects of root exudates from these cvs showed that they had an influence on the hatching inhibition of second stage juveniles of the five Meloidogyne species tested.

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This research was partially supported by FEDER through the Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade (COMPETE) and by National funds through FCT (Fundação para Ciência e a Tecnologia) under the project PTDC/101817/2008. Authors want to thank to the company Vandijke Semo, Scheemda, The Netherlands, for supplying Solanum sisymbriifolium seeds.

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    Margarida Caetano Dias, Isabel Luci Conceição & Isabel Abrantes

  2. CERNAS, Department of Agronomic Sciences, High School of Agriculture, Bencanta, 3040-316, Coimbra, Portugal

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Dias, M.C., Conceição, I.L., Abrantes, I. et al. Solanum sisymbriifolium - a new approach for the management of plant-parasitic nematodes. Eur J Plant Pathol 133, 171–179 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-012-9945-0

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