Abstract
SUMMARYThe potential of several chromatographic methods for isolating hatching factors for potato cyst nematodes from potato root diffusate was investigated using a bioassay based on emergence of juveniles from cysts. Gel filtration provided an overall estimate of molecular weight of 437 Da for the hatching activity and ion exchange chromatography indicated that at least 60% of the recovered activity was anionic in nature.Material less polar than the hatching activity could be removed by passing potato root diffusate through a reversed‐phase Sep‐Pak C18 cartridge and the elutant showed 83.3 ± 4.4% (mean of 32 cysts) of the initial hatching activity. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with a reversed phase, C18 column and gradient elution (0–80% CH3OH in water) confirmed that much of the hatching activity was polar and that it was not retained by this method of separation. A weak anion exchange resin achieved slight retention of much of the hatching activity and an ion pairing reagent lowered the polarity sufficiently to allow some retention in subsequent reversed phase HPLC on a CIS column. Both ion exchange and ion pairing HPLC suggested that hatching activity was not chromatographed as a single compound and indicated that fractions able to influence the nucleolus of the nucleus within the dorsal pharyngeal gland cell did not always show hatching activity.
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