PLANT·PARASITIC NEMATODES, SOIL FUNGI ASSOCIATED WITH BANANA PLANTATIONS IN EGYPT

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Agriculture Zoology and Nematology, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt.

2 Department of Fruits and Woody Trees Diseases Research, Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center. Giza.

Abstract

Banana (Musi? Spp < /em>) .s considered an economical monocotyteoons plant
grown in the most gcvernorates of Egypt. Banana suffers from a wide range of plant
disease especially root-knot Nematode and root-rot by different soil borne fUf'gi. SIX to
eight genera of nematodes representing ecto and endo-parasitic forms were recorded
from the banana orchards grown in four Egypt Governorates with different population
densities, frquencies of occurrence and prominence values. The root-knot
nematodes. Meloldogyne spp and the spiral nematodes, Helicotylenchus spp < /em>. Are the
major nematode pests on. banana roots. The incidence of other sixgenera of
Nematodes at low popviauon densities. percentage of frequency and prominence
values were also reported. Occurrence of the surveyed nematodes as socated witn
banana roots are recorded In relation to different soil fungi isolated from rh ..:ospnere
of banana roots. About twenty one soil-borne fungi were isolated from naturally
infected banana roots. Botryodip < /em>lodla theobromae and Fusarium soleru were the most
frequent isolates followed by Rhizoctonie solani and F. equlseti

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Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology
Volume 30, Issue 12
December 2005
Pages 8135-8146

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