Nine isolates of Aphelenchoides besseyi from two different hosts were studied. The isolates were identified at the species level according to morphometrics and fine structures observed under a scanning electron microscope. Two fern-originated isolates, Fu, and Fm, one rice-originated isolate, Rl, were not able to reproduce from a single juvenile, based on at least 50 replicates. The other six i...

MYERS, R. F., AND BALASUBRAMANIAN, M. 1973. Nutrient media for plant parasitic nematodes. V. Amino acid nutrition of Aphelenchoides rutgersi. Exflerimental Parasitology .34, 123-131. Nutrition of axenically cultured A. rutgersi was investigated by deletion and addition of various levels of essential amino acids. Reproduction was lacking when isoleucine, leucine, methionine, phenylalanine, threo...