CORESTA Congress, Quebec, 2014, Agronomy/Phytopathology Groups, AP 05
Reproduction of M. arenaria on flue-cured tobacco homozygous for Rk1 and/or Rk2 resistance genes, and possible effects of soil temperature on resistance
(1) Virginia Tech, Southern Piedmont Agriculture Research and Extension Center, Blackstone, VA, U.S.A.; (2) Virginia Tech Dept. Plant Pathology, Physiology, & Weed Science, Blacksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Meloidogyne incognita has historically been the most significant root-knot nematode species on tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) in Virginia. However, most commercial cultivars now possess the Rk1 resistance gene to races 1 and 3 of M. incognita, and M....