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The sea beet source of resistance to multiple species of root-knot nematode

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Development of commercially available host-plant resistance to Meloidogyne spp. is essential to sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) root-knot nematode resistance breeding. Reactions of seedlings from resistant crosses and hybrid derivatives were evaluated against juvenile (J2) inoculations in the greenhouse. The noncultivated sea beet [B. vulgaris ssp. maritime (L.) Arcang] source of resistance is effective against the four economically important root-knot nematodes, i.e., M. incognita Races 1, 2 and 4 (Race 3 not tested), M. Javanica, M. arenaria Races 1 and 2, and M. hapla. In monoxenic culture, M. arenaria inoculations resulted in the most galling, and M. hapla, the least. Species combinations induced higher rates of infection. Different races of the same Meloidogyne species caused similar galling. Preliminary inoculation studies indicated that resistance was also effective to M. Chitwoodi and M. fallax. The trait of resistance to multiple Meloidogyne species may be valuable in developing sugarbeet, and possibly transgenic lines of other crops, resistant to root-knot nematode.

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  1. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Agricultural Research Station, Salinas, CA, 93905, U.S.A.

    M.H. Yu & L.M. Pakish

  2. Institute of Sugar Beet Research (IRS), P.O. Box 32, 4600 AA, Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands

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Yu, M., Heijbroek, W. & Pakish, L. The sea beet source of resistance to multiple species of root-knot nematode. Euphytica 108, 151–155 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003616612201

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