Tzortzakakis Emmanuel A, Cantalapiedra-Navarrete Carolina, Castillo Pablo, Palomares-Rius Juan E, Archidona-Yuste Antonio
Department of Viticulture, Vegetable Crops, Floriculture and Plant Protection, Institute of Olive Tree, Subtropical Crops and Viticulture, N.AG.RE.F., Hellenic Agricultural Organization-DEMETER, 32A Kastorias Street, Mesa Katsabas, 71307 Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS), CSIC, 14004 Córdoba, Spain.
J Nematol. 2017 Sep;49(3):233-235.
Plant-parasitic nematodes such as and are species widely distributed in central Europe as well as in Mediterranean area. In Greece, both species have been previously reported but no morphometrics or molecular data were available for these species. Nematode surveys in the rhizosphere of grapevines in Athens carried out in 2016 and 2017, yielded a species identified as . Similarly, a population of was detected infecting banana roots from an outdoor crop in Tertsa, Crete. For both species, morphometrics and molecular data of Greek populations were provided, resulting in the first integrative identification of both nematode species based on morphometric and molecular markers, confirming the occurrence of these two nematodes in Greece as had been stated in earlier reports.