Abstract

The success of alternative crop protection practices against plant-parasitic nematodes using host resistance genes depends fundamentally upon identification of the species and pathotypes effectively controlled by these genes. In the same way, biological control of insects by entomopathogenic nematodes will work only if the nematode strains used are indeed active against the pests to be eliminated. For these applications, the accurate interspecific and/or intraspecific identification of nematodes is thus of outstanding importance. Here, Eric Grenier, Philippe Castagnone-Sereno and Pierre Abad discuss the recent use of satellite DNA sequences in nematode taxonomic diagnostics.

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