Sentences with phrase «of cyst nematode»

«On the one hand the result is an important contribution to the fundamental understanding of parasitism in plants, and on the other hand it can help to reduce the problem of cyst nematode in important agricultural crops,» said Prof Grundler.

Rotating hemp with soybeans also leads to a dramatic reduction of cyst nematodes (a soy - decimating soil parasite with few cures) without any chemical input.

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Japantoday.com reported Sept. 13 that the government of Japan opened the doors for fresh imports from Idaho for the first time since 2006, with Japanese officials citing reduced pest risks associated with the pale potato cyst nematode.

In May 2008 consent was given to the University of Leeds to carry out trials over a three year period on potato crops genetically modified for resistance to potato cyst nematodes and in March 2010 this consent was extended for a further three years.

Before farmers are even aware of the belowground infestation, the soybean cyst nematode silently begins to wreak havoc on soybean yield.

The article, «Impact of soybean cyst nematode resistance on soybean yield,» is published in Crop Science.

This increases the importance of testing soils for soybean cyst nematodes this spring.

In addition, sudden death syndrome tends to be worse in fields that have high levels of soybean cyst nematode, according to Mathew and SDSU Extension plant pathologist Emmanuel Byamukama.

The new method has been tested in greenhouse trials to show that the more copies of the gene, the greater the resistance to soybean cyst nematode.

Soybean cyst nematode is the number one soybean pest worldwide, accounting for estimated annual losses of nearly $ 1.3 billion in the United States.

In the last three years, Byamukama and graduate student Krishna Acharya have collected soil samples from 28 East River counties to determine which resistance gene sources are still effective against the predominant races of Heterodera glycine, or soybean cyst nematode, in South Dakota.

One species, Glycine tomentella, was of particular interest because it has genes for resistance to soybean rust and to soybean cyst nematode, he said.

It took decades of painstaking work, but research geneticist Ram Singh managed to cross a popular soybean variety («Dwight» Glycine max) with a related wild perennial plant that grows like a weed in Australia, producing the first fertile soybean plants that are resistant to soybean rust, soybean cyst nematode and other pathogens of soy.

A group of plant scientists, led by University of Missouri researchers, recently found one of the mechanisms cyst nematodes use to invade and drain life - sustaining nutrients from soybean plants.

Together with scientists from Columbia (USA), Olomouc (Czech Republic), Warsaw (Poland), Osaka (Japan) and the Freie Universitaet Berlin, the researchers at the University of Bonn have used Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant to discover that the beet cyst nematode itself produces the plant hormone cytokinin.

Invisible to the naked eye, cyst nematodes are a major threat to agriculture, causing billions of dollars in global crop losses every year.

Cyst nematodes jeopardize the healthy production of this critical global food source by «hijacking» the soybean plants» biology.

The top of the centrifuged material for nematode ova, Capillaria eggs, Giardia cysts, coccidia (Cryptosporidia, Isospora or Eimeria) oocysts because they float well