Differences in the Response of Certain Weed Host Populations to Heterodera schachtii

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  • G. D. Griffin

Abstract

Significant differences (P = 0.05) in nematode reproduction were observed among populations of Heterodera schachtii and weed collections of black nightshade, common lambsquarters, common purslane, redroot-pigweed, shepherdspurse, and wild mustard from Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, and Utah. Colorado weeds supported the greatest nematode development (P = 0.05). Weeds collected from Idaho and Utah were similar with respect to their response to H. schachtii with the exception of shepherdspurse. At increasing soil temperatures, a Utah redroot-pigweed collection showed a higher percent susceptibility to a Utah nematode population than to nematode populations from the other states (P = 0.05). There was a higher percentage of susceptible plants when the weed host population was collected from the same geographical area as the nematode inoculun. Key words: sugarbeet cyst nematode, Amaranthus relroflexus, Chemopodium album, Capsella bursa-pastoris, Portulaca oleraceae. Solarium nigrum, Brassica kaber, susceptibility, soil temperature, genetic variability.

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1982-04-15

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