Scenarios for sustainable management of plant parasitic nematodes

Abstract Plant parasitic nematodes cause significant yield reductions worldwide. Before development of soil fumigation, sustainable practices were developed for nematode management; but utilized with limited success. The restricted availability fumigants and other nematicides, has stimulated a return to research into more management scenarios. In recent years, new tools have been that improve the successful utilization methods including: resistant crop varieties, trap cropping, biofumigation, molecular identification techniques, databases can be accessed online search crops nematodes, relatively inexpensive temperature dataloggers, degree-day models, on biology population cycling, less toxic chemicals, amendments natural products. Combining these strong control certification program nursery crops, made it possible develop promising scenarios reduce damaging populations increase yields.