Title: “A technique for screening grape germplasm for resistance to Meloidogyne incognita”

Breeding programs aiming at developing new nematode-resistant rootstocks are important because current rootstocks with adequate nematode resistance tend to have other undesirable viticultural characteristics (excessive vigor, excessive potassium uptake, poor resistance to phylloxera, rooting difficulty, inadequate zinc absorption). In this paper the authors develop a technique for evaluating resistance to root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita ) in grape seedlings that will promise to fastforward what used to be a very slow process.