Seasonal Fluctuations of Globodera tabacum solanacearum as Estimated by Two Soil Extraction Techniques

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  • J. J. Reilly
  • C. E. Grant

Abstract

Two soil extraction methods were compared to determine their efficiency in recovering cysts and juveniles of a tobacco cyst nematode, Globodera tabaeum solanacearum. The methods were equally efficient when extracting nematodes from soil samples seeded in the laboratory; however, there was a significant extraction method × month interaction when the methods were used to estimate field soil populations over 2 years. The centrifugal sugar flotation method recovered greater numbers of cysts when densities were near 400 cysts/100 cm³ soil and greater numbers of juveniles in all samples. The sugar flotation method recovered greater numbers of cysts during months when densities were less than 400 cysts/100 cm³ soil. Numbers of cysts and juveniles were lowest in June and July following land tillage in May. A soil freeze in January 1982 may have been responsible for unusually high numbers of recovered cysts in February and March 1982, a pattern that did not occur in 1983. Key words: tobacco cyst nematode, Nicotiana tabacum, extraction methods, population dynamics.

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1985-07-15

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