Suitable Hosts of Root Knot Nematode Attack: An Assessment on the Basis of Morphological Size Variations and Population Density under Field Conditions

Gamini Sahu, Surendra K. Gautam, Aditi N. Poddar

Abstract


Root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne species) are major pests of vegetable crops causing serious losses in quantity and quality of crop yield. This study involves an assessment of their suitable hosts on the basis of variations in their population densities and body sizes in different vegetable crop plants under field conditions. A random survey of root knot nematode infestation in vegetable crops was conducted in 9 villages of Abhanpur block, Chhattisgarh state, Central India, from January 2012 to March 2012.  Diseased plants were identified on the basis of above ground symptoms and soil and root samples collected by digging. Extraction of nematodes was done by Cobb’s sieving and decantation method and Baerman’s funnel technique. Identification was done microscopically by morphological examination of perineal patterns of female nematodes. Body sizes were measured by using an eyepiece/ocular micrometer. Twenty nine percent of the total farm area surveyed suffered from root knot nematode attack. Among the several genera of vegetable crop plants surveyed, Lycopersicon esculentum, Dolichos lablab, Solanum melongena, Momordica charantia, Daucus carota,Capsicum annum,Cucumis sativus had root galls. Three species of root knot nematodes Meloidogyne incognita, M. javanica, M. areneria were identified from the above hosts and a comparative morphometric analysis of the body, head and neck size ratios of females were done. Non-significant body and head size variations existing between the females from D. lablab, S. melongena, C. annum, D. carota, L. esculentum showed that all the crops are equally susceptible to root knot nematode attack.  However, on the basis of nematode population density, D. carrota appears to be the best suitable host of the Meloidogyne species other than L. esculentum and S. melongena.


Keywords


Population density; size variations; Meloidogyne spp

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