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Gerald Holmes, Strawberry Center, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org
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Image Number: 5605860

root-knot nematode (Genus Meloidogyne)

Photographer:
Gerald Holmes
Descriptor:
Symptoms
Description:
Root-knot nematode can cause extensive cracking (left) or small raised areas (right). Note the galls on the fine feeder root.
Image type:
Laboratory
Host:
sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.)

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Image location:
United States, North Carolina

Subject

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromodorea
Order: Tylenchida
Family: Heteroderidae
Genus: Meloidogyne
Subject: Meloidogyne spp.

Host

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Solanales
Family: Convolvulaceae
Genus: Ipomoea
Subject: Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.
Node Affiliation:
Bugwood - UGA
Image taken:
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Image uploaded:
Monday, February 22, 2021
Image last updated:
Monday, February 22, 2021