Reported some new species of plant parasitic nematodes from rhizosphere of tea plantation in Iran

Abstract

Tea (Camellia sinensis) is one of the most important produce in Guilan province that most feild is allocated to this produce after rice in this province. In order to identify the plant parasitic nematodes of Tea plantation, 340 samples of soil around the roots of Tea were collected from different parts of the Tea plantation in provinces of Guilan and Mazandaran, during the summer and fall of 2011. After extraction, killing, fixation and transferring to anhydrous glycerol, the nematodes were mounted on permnanent microscopic slides and nematodes species identified by using light microscope, equipped with digital camera, based on morphological and morphometric characters using valid keys. In this study 22 species belonging 12 genera of nematodes infraorder Tylenchomorpha were identified, that before just 6 Species are reported from rhizosphere of Tea in Iran. others species are reported from rhizosphere of Tea in Iran from first reported.