Nematode Net

Meloidogyne hapla	Photo Credit: http://www.apsnet.org/online/archive/1998/methylb.htm Image: Northern root-knot nematode Meloidogyne hapla in strawberry root tissue. Photograph courtesy J. B. Ristaino Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University. From Plant Disease, Volume 81:964-977.
Common Name:	Root Knot Nematode - clade IVb
Disease:	Plant-parasitic nematodes reduce annual U.S. agricultural production by more than $5 billion. The most important group are the root-knot nematodes (RKN: Meloidogyne spp.), which are devastating pathogens of food and fiber crops.
Libraries:	M. hapla Library Descriptions
Available ESTs:	24,454
Planned ESTs:	completed
NemaGene Cluster Status:	6667 NemaGene clusters
Sequencing:	The Washington University Nematode EST Project, Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
GSC Collaborators:	David Bird: david_bird@ncsu.edu Valeria Williamson
Links:	Plant Nematode Biology and Root-knot Nematode Symptoms
Contact:	Makedonka Mitreva
Reference:	Reference

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