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Screening Sweetpotato Genotypes for Resistance to a North Carolina Isolate of Meloidogyne enterolobii.
Plant disease - 1 Apr 2021
Schwarz Tanner R, Li Chunying, Yencho G Craig, Pecota Kenneth V, Heim Chris R, Davis Eric L
Abstract excerpt
Potential resistance to the guava root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne enterolobii, in 91 selected sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas [L.] Lam.) genotypes was evaluated in six greenhouse experiments. Ten thousand eggs of M. enterolobii were inoculated on each sweetpotato genotype grown in a 3:1 sand to soil mixture. Sixty days after inoculation, the percentage of total roots with nematode-induced galls was determined, and...
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