Aphelenchoides

<i>Aphelenchoides</i>

Aphelenchoides

Genus of nematode worms

Aphelenchoides is a genus of mycetophagous nematodes. Some species are plant pathogenic foliar nematodes.

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Taxonomy

In 1961 Sanwal listed 33 species and provided a key.[3]

The most important species of these are Aphelenchoides ritzemabosi, the chrysanthemum foliar nematode; Aphelenchoides fragariae, the spring crimp or spring dwarf nematode of strawberry, which also attacks many ornamentals; and Aphelenchoides besseyi, causing summer crimp or dwarf of strawberry and white tip of rice.

Several species of this genus feed ectoparasitically and endoparasitically on aboveground plant parts.

References

  1. [1]
    Eight known species of Aphelenchoides nematodes with description of a new species from Manipur, India. L. Bina Chanu, N. Mohilal, L. Victoria and M. Manjur Shah, J Parasit Dis. 2015 Jun; 39(2): 225–233, doi:10.1007/s12639-013-0323-4, PMC 4456556
  2. [2]
    Franklin MT. Aphelenchoides composticola n. sp. and A. saprophilus n. sp. from mushroom compost and rotting plant tissues. Nematologica. 1957;2:306–313. doi:10.1163/187529257X00392
  3. [3]
    Sanwal, K. C. (1961). "a Key to the Species of the Nematode genus Aphelenchoides Fischer, 1894". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 39 (2): 143–148. doi:10.1139/z61-018.

Bibliography

  • George Agrios (2005): Plant Pathology, Fifth Edition. Elsevier Academic Press


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