Tag Archive for PRO/PL> Root nematodes, rice – Cambodia: (southern)
PRO/PL> Root nematodes, rice – Cambodia: (southern)
Other Plant Disease -- CambodiaJon Eisenback and Paulo Viera, Virginia Polytechnic Institute [USA], conducted nematode surveys on rice in the south of [Cambodia]. They found that the rice fields they surveyed showed a significant loss of production caused by the rice root nematode."Every root we looked at had lesions," Eisenback said. The culprit was a parasitic nematode called _Hirschmanniella mucronata_. "Rice roots should be creamy white. These were speckled with brown and orange lesions."He expects Read more [...]
