Claim · model-written summary
Roots of infested potato plants bore brown cysts on their surface
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Organ / stage
- Rootse3
- Outcome
- brown cystse3
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Verbatim
t0“First report of a potato cyst nematode, Globodera rostochiensis , on potato, in Iran”
e3“Roots of infested plants showed white, golden mature females and brown cysts on their surface”
Title
First report of a potato cyst nematode, Globodera rostochiensis , on potato, in Iran
M. Gitty; Z. Tanha Maafi Plant Pathology 2010. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3059.2009.02135.x
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Observation Potato fields in Hamadan Province showed patches of poor growth over about 20-200 m2
- Observation Infested potato plants showed severe stunting and nutrient deficiency symptoms
- Observation The cysts showed the general characteristics of the genus Globodera
- Observation Distance from anus to the vulval basin of the cysts was 49.56 ± 9.68 μm
- Observation Vulval basin diameter of the cysts was 15.24 ± 1.92 μm
- Observation Granek’s ratio of the cysts was 3.27 ± 0.61
- Observation Cysts had 19 ± 2.5 cuticular ridges between anus and vulval basin
- Observation Second stage juveniles had stylet length 21.12 ± 0.95 μm with rounded knobs
- Observation Second stage juveniles had tail length 52.7 ± 2.9 μm
- Observation Hyaline part of the tail of second stage juveniles was 28.12 ± 3.53 μm
- Observation The cysts were identified as Globodera rostochiensis
- Observation A PCR with species-specific primers gave a single 315 bp fragment and no amplification with G. pallida primers
- Observation Globodera rostochiensis is reported for the first time on potato in Iran