Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Taxonomic history -- Chapter 2. Diagnosis of the genus Meloidogyne -- Chapter 3. Morphology -- Female -- Male -- Second-stage juvenile -- Egg -- Measurements and indices for morphological identification -- Chapter 4. Biology -- Development and life cycle -- Reproduction and cytogenetics -- Chapter 5. Distribution of root-knot nematode species -- Chapter 6. Host-parasite relationships -- Symptoms of infection -- Giant cell formation -- Host races -- Plant host range -- Chapter 7. Pathogenicity and threshold damage -- Chapter 8. Genomes -- Nuclear genome -- Mitochondrial genome -- Chapter 9. Methods of biochemical and molecular diagnostics -- Protein-based diagnostics -- DNA-based diagnostics -- Genes used for molecular diagnostics -- PCR with specific primers -- Real-time PCR -- Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) -- Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (RPA) -- Chapter 10. Phylogenetic relationships -- Phylogeny and molecular grouping of root-knot nematodes -- Evolutionary relationships of Meloidogyne nataliei and M. indica with other root-knot nematodes -- Evolutionary trends within the root-knot nematodes -- Chapter 11. Polytomous key to the species of Meloidogyne -- Stages and characters used for polytomous key -- Morphometric and morphological characters used to distinguish Meloidogyne spp. in polytomous key -- Chapter 12. Descriptions and diagnoses of Meloidogyne species -- 1. Meloidogyne exigua Göldi, 1887 -- 2. Meloidogyne aberrans Tao, Xu, Yuan, Wang, Lin, Zhuo & Liao, 2017 -- 3. Meloidogyne acronea Coetzee, 1956 -- 4. Meloidogyne aegracyperi Eisenback, Holland, Schroeder, Thomas, Beacham, Hanson, Paes-Takahashi & Vieira, 2019 -- 5. Meloidogyne africana Whitehead, 1960 -- 6. Meloidogyne aquatilis Ebsary & Eveleigh, 1983 -- 7. Meloidogyne arabidicida Lopez & Salazar, 1989 -- 8. Meloidogyne ardenensis Santos, 1968 -- 9. Meloidogyne arenaria (Neal, 1889) Chitwood, 1949 -- 10. Meloidogyne artiellia Franklin, 1961 -- 11. Meloidogyne baetica Castillo, Vovlas, Subbotin & Troccoli, 2003 -- 12. Meloidogyne brevicauda Loos, 1953 -- 13. Meloidogyne californiensis Abdel-Rahman & Maggenti, 1987 -- 14. Meloidogyne camelliae Golden, 1979 -- 15. Meloidogyne caraganae Shagalina, Ivanova & Krall, 1985 -- 16. Meloidogyne carolinensis Eisenback, 1982 -- 17. Meloidogyne chitwoodi Golden, O'Bannon, Santo & Finley, 1980 -- 18. Meloidogyne chosenia Eroshenko & Lebedeva, 1992.

19. Meloidogyne christiei Golden & Kaplan, 1986 -- 20. Meloidogyne citri Zhang, Gao & Weng, 1990 -- 21. Meloidogyne coffeicola Lordello & Zamith, 1960 -- 22. Meloidogyne cruciani Garcia-Martinez, Taylor & Smart, 1982 -- 23. Meloidogyne cynariensis Pham, 1990 -- 24. Meloidogyne daklakensis Trinh, Le, Nguyen, Nguyen, Liebanas & Nguyen, 2018 -- 25. Meloidogyne donghaiensis Zheng, Lin & Zheng, 1990 -- 26. Meloidogyne dunensis Palomares-Rius, Vovlas, Troccoli, Liebanas, Landa & Castillo, 2007 -- 27. Meloidogyne duytsi Karssen, Aelst & Van der Putten, 1998 -- 28. Meloidogyne enterolobii Yang & Eisenback, 1983 -- 29. Meloidogyne ethiopica Whitehead, 1968 -- 30. Meloidogyne fallax Karssen, 1996 -- 31. Meloidogyne fanzhiensis Chen, Peng & Zheng, 1990 -- 32. Meloidogyne floridensis Handoo, Nyczepir, Esmenjaud, van der Beek, Castagnone-Sereno, Carta, Skantar & Higgins, 2004 -- 33. Meloidogyne fujianensis Pan, 1985 -- 34. Meloidogyne graminicola Golden & Birchfield, 1965 -- 35. Meloidogyne graminis (Sledge & Golden, 1964) Whitehead, 1968 -- 36. Meloidogyne hapla Chitwood, 1949 -- 37. Meloidogyne haplanaria Eisenback, Bernard, Starr, Lee & Tomaszewski, 2003 -- 38. Meloidogyne hispanica Hirschmann, 1986 -- 39. Meloidogyne ichinohei Araki, 1992 -- 40. Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid & White, 1919) Chitwood, 1949 -- 41. Meloidogyne indica Whitehead, 1968 -- 42. Meloidogyne inornata Lordello, 1956 -- 43. Meloidogyne izalcoensis Carneiro, Almeida, Gomes & Hernandez, 2005 -- 44. Meloidogyne javanica (Treub, 1885) Chitwood, 1949 -- 45. Meloidogyne jianyangensis Baojun, Hu, Chen & Zhu, 1990 -- 46. Meloidogyne jinanensis Zhang & Su, 1986 -- 47. Meloidogyne kikuyensis De Grisse, 1961 -- 48. Meloidogyne konaensis Eisenback, Bernard & Schmitt, 1994 -- 49. Meloidogyne kongi Yang, Wang & Feng, 1988 -- 50. Meloidogyne kralli Jepson, 1983 -- 51. Meloidogyne lopezi Humphreys-Pereira, Flores-Chaves, Gomez, Salazar, Gomez-Alpízar & Elling, 2014 -- 52. Meloidogyne luci Carneiro, Correa, Almeida, Gomes, Mohammad Deimi, Castagnone-Sereno & Karssen, 2014 -- 53. Meloidogyne lusitanica Abrantes & Santos, 1991 -- 54. Meloidogyne mali Itoh, Ohshima & Ichinohe, 1969 -- 55. Meloidogyne maritima Jepson, 1987 -- 56. Meloidogyne marylandi Jepson & Golden, in Jepson 1987 -- 57. Meloidogyne megadora Whitehead, 1968 -- 58. Meloidogyne megatyla Baldwin & Sasser, 1979 -- 59. Meloidogyne mersa Siddiqi & Booth, 1991 -- 60. Meloidogyne microcephala Cliff & Hirschmann, 1984 -- 61. Meloidogyne microtyla Mulvey, Townshend & Potter, 1975.

62. Meloidogyne mingnanica Zhang, 1993 -- 63. Meloidogyne minor Karssen, Bolk, van Aelst, van den Beld, Kox, Korthals, Molendijk, Zijlstra, van Hoof & Cook, 2004 -- 64. Meloidogyne moensi Le, Nguyen, Nguyen, Liebanas, Nguyen & Trinh, 2019 -- 65. Meloidogyne morocciensis Rammah & Hirschmann, 1990 -- 66. Meloidogyne naasi Franklin, 1965 -- 67. Meloidogyne nataliei Golden, Rose & Bird, 1981 -- 68. Meloidogyne oleae Archidona-Yuste, Cantalapiedra-Navarrete, Liébanas, Rapoport, Castillo & Palomares-Rius, 2018 -- 69. Meloidogyne oryzae Maas, Sanders & Dede, 1978 -- 70. Meloidogyne ottersoni (Thorne, 1969) Franklin, 1971 -- 71. Meloidogyne ovalis Riffle, 1963 -- 72. Meloidogyne panyuensis Liao, Yang, Feng, & Karssen, 2005 -- 73. Meloidogyne paranaensis Carneiro, Carneiro, Abrantes, Santos & Almeida, 1996 -- 74. Meloidogyne partityla Kleynhans, 1986 -- 75. Meloidogyne petuniae Charchar, Eisenback & Hirschmann, 1999 -- 76. Meloidogyne phaseoli Charchar, Eisenback, Charchar & Boiteux, 2008 -- 77. Meloidogyne pini Eisenback, Yang & Hartman, 1985 -- 78. Meloidogyne piperi Sahoo, Ganguly & Eapen, 2000 -- 79. Meloidogyne pisi Charchar, Eisenback, Charchar & Boiteux, 2008 -- 80. Meloidogyne platani Hirschmann, 1982 -- 81. Meloidogyne propora Spaull, 1977 -- 82. Meloidogyne querciana Golden, 1979 -- 83. Meloidogyne salasi López, 1984 -- 84. Meloidogyne sasseri Handoo, Huettel & Golden, 1993 -- 85. Meloidogyne sewelli Mulvey & Anderson, 1980 -- 86. Meloidogyne silvestris Castillo, Vovlas, Troccoli, Liébanas, Palomares-Rius & Landa, 2009 -- 87. Meloidogyne sinensis Zhang, 1983 -- 88. Meloidogyne spartelensis Ali, Tavoillot, Mateille, Chapuis, Besnard, El-Bakkali, Cantalapiedra-Navarrete, Liébanas, Castillo & Palomares-Rius, 2015 -- 89. Meloidogyne spartinae (Rau & Fassuliotis, 1965) Whitehead, 1968 -- 90. Meloidogyne subartica Bernard, 1981 -- 91. Meloidogyne suginamiensis Toida & Yaegashi, 1984 -- 92. Meloidogyne tadshikistanica Kirjanova & Ivanova, 1965 -- 93. Meloidogyne thailandica Handoo, Skantar, Carta & Erbe, 2005 -- 94. Meloidogyne trifoliophila Bernard & Eisenback, 1997 -- 95. Meloidogyne triticoryzae Gaur, Saha & Khan, 1993 -- 96. Meloidogyne turkestanica Shagalina, Ivanova & Krall, 1985 -- 97. Meloidogyne vandervegtei Kleynhans, 1988 -- References -- Index of nematode Latin names -- Index of plant Latin names.

Root-knot nematodes of the genus Meloidogyne represent one of the most damaging and agricultural important group of plant-parasitic nematodes. These nematodes are obligate sedentary endoparasites infecting most species of higher plants and have a cosmopolitan distribution. Annual worldwide economic losses due to nematode infection of crops have been estimated at several hundred billion US dollars. This book is the first complete illustrated compendium of root-knot nematode species and contains 98 species descriptions with comprehensive diagnoses, information on biology, plant-hosts, pathogenicity, symptoms, distribution and biochemical and molecular diagnostics. It also includes introductions into morphology, biology, biogeography, genomics, phylogeny and host-parasite relationships of root-knot nematodes.

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