Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Spatial distribution of root lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus spp.) in a long-term no-till cropping system and their relationship with soil and landscape properties

  • Published:
European Journal of Plant Pathology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The Cook Agronomy Farm of Washington State University is a long-term precision agriculture study site. Since 2000, the farm has been in various three-year no-till rotations with winter wheat, spring wheat, and various rotation crops such as barley, canola, peas, lentils, and chickpea. The spatial distribution of root lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus spp.) and their relationships with soil and terrain variables were studied by collecting soil samples at 127 and 124 geo-referenced points in two 12-ha fields during the spring of 2010 and 2011, respectively. Pratylenchus spp. were detected in more than 85% of the sampled locations in both fields. Nematode densities spatially mapped using ArcGIS software occurred in an aggregated pattern. Previous rotation crops had no effect on the spatial distribution. Classification and regression tree analysis (CART) using soil and terrain variables, and nematode density, explained 61 and 34% of the variability associated with nematode density in 2010 and 2011, respectively. Soil edaphic factors, such as organic matter, were stronger predictors of nematode populations than rotation effects.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Avendano, F., Schabenberger, O., Pierce, F. J., & Melakeberhan, H. (2003). Geostatistical analysis of field spatial distribution patterns of soybean cyst nematode. Agronomy Journal, 95, 936–948.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Boag, B., & Topham, P. B. (1984). Aggregation of plant parasitic nematodes and Taylor's power law. Nematologica, 30, 348–357.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Carbonetto, B., Rascovan, N., Álvarez, R. A., Mentaberry, A., & Vazquez, M. P. (2014). Structure, composition and metagenomic profile of soil microbiomes associated to agricultural land use and tillage systems in Argentine Pampas. PloS One, 9(6), e99949. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099949.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Castillo, P., & Vovlas, N. (2007). Pratylenchus (Nematoda: Pratylenchidae): diagnosis, biology, pathogenicity and management. In D. J. Hunt & R. N. Perry (Eds.), Nematology Monographs and Perspectives, Vol. 6. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chanu, L. B., Mohilal, N., & Shah, M. M. (2010). Population fluctuation of soil and plant parasitic nematodes at Khangabok Wangbal Government silkfarm, Wangbal, Thoubal district Manipur, India. Parasitologia, 52, 427–434.

    Google Scholar 

  • Collins, D. P., Cogger, C. G., Kennedy, A. C., Forge, T., Collins, H. P., Bary, A. I., & Rossi, R. (2011). Farm-scale variation of soil quality indices and association with edaphic properties. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 75, 580–590.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Corwin, D. L., & Lesch, S. M. (2005). Apparent soil electrical conductivity measurements in agriculture. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 46, 11–43.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Death, G., & Fabricius, K. E. (2000). Classification and regression trees: a powerful yet simple technique for ecological data analysis. Ecology, 81, 3178–3192.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ferris, H., & McKenry, M. V. (1974). Seasonal fluctuations in the spatial distribution of nematode populations in a California vineyard. Journal of Nematology, 6, 203–210.

    CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Fortnum, B. A., & Karlen, D. L. (1985). Effect of tillage system and irrigation on population densities of plant parasitic nematodes in field corn. Journal of Nematology, 17, 25–28.

    CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Gallaher, R. N., Dickson, D. W., Corella, J. F., & Hewlett, T. E. (1988). Tillage and multiple cropping systems and population dynamics of phytoparasitic nematodes. Annals of Applied Nematology, 2, 90–94.

    Google Scholar 

  • Govaerts, B., Fuentes, M., Mezzalama, M., Sayre, K. D., Crossa, J., Nicol, J. M., & Deckers, J. (2006). Long-term consequences of tillage, residue management, and crop rotation on maize/wheat root rot and nematode populations in subtropical highlands. Applied Soil Ecology, 32, 305–315.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hollaway, G. J., Taylor, S. P., Eastwood, R. F., & Hunt, C. H. (2000). Effect of field crops on density of Pratylenchus in Southeastern Australia; part 2: P. thornei. Journal of Nematology, 32, 600–608.

    CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Horowitz, J., Ebel, R., & Ueda, K. (2010). No-till farming is a growing practice. EIB-70, USDA, Economic Research Service, November 2010.

  • Huggins, D. R., & Uberuaga, D. P. (2010). Field heterogeneity of soil organic carbon and relationships to soil properties and terrain attributes. Climate friendly farming: Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources Research Report 2010–001. Available at http://csanr.wsu.edu/pages/Climate_Friendly_Farming_Final_Report/.

  • Huggins, D. R., Kruger, C. E., Painter, K. M., & Uberuaga, D. P. (2014). Site-specific trade-offs of harvesting cereal residues as biofuel feedstocks in dryland annual cropping systems of the Pacific Northwest, USA. Bioenergy Research, 7, 598–608. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12155-014-9438-4.

  • Ingham, R. E. (1994). Nematodes. In R. W. Weaver (Ed.), Methods of Soil Analysis, Part 2. Microbiological and Biochemical Properties (pp. 459–490). Madison: American Society of Agronomy.

    Google Scholar 

  • Johnson, W. A. (2007). Discovery and distribution of root lesion nematode, Pratylenchus neglectus, in Montana. Bozeman: M.S. thesis, Montana State Univ. Available at http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2007/johnson/JohnsonW1207.pdf.

  • Kable, P. F., & Mai, W. F. (1968). Influence of soil moisture on Pratylenchus penetrans. Nematologica, 14, 101–122.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kandel, S. L., Smiley, R. W., Garland-Campbell, K., Elling, A. A., Abatzoglou, J., Huggins, D., Rupp, R., & Paulitz, T. C. (2013). Relationship between climatic factors and distribution of Pratylenchus spp. in the dryland wheat-production areas of eastern Washington. Plant Disease, 97, 1448–1456.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kemanian, A. R., Huggins, D. R., & Uberuaga, D. P. (2010). Modeling soil carbon spatial variation: case study in the Palouse region. Denver: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Precision Agriculture.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kimpinski, J., Wallace, H. R., & Cunningham, R. B. (1976). Influence of some environmental factors on populations of Pratylenchus neglectus in wheat. Journal of Nematology, 8, 310–314.

    CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Loh, W. (2011). GUIDE Classification and Regression Trees and Forests (version 11.4), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin. Available at www.stat.wisc.edu/~loh/guide.html.

  • Marshall, B., Boag, B., McNicol, J. W., & Neilson, R. (1998). A comparison of the spatial distributions of three plant-parasitic nematode species at three different scales. Nematologica, 44, 303–320.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Minton, N. A. (1986). Impact of conservation tillage on nematode populations. Journal of Nematology, 18, 135–140.

    CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Noe, J. P., & Barker, K. R. (1985). Relation of within-field spatial variation of plant-parasitic nematode population densities and edaphic factors. Phytopathology, 75, 247–252.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Norton, D. C. (1979). Relationship of physical and chemical factors to populations of plant-parasitic nematodes. Annual Review of Phytopathology, 17, 279–299.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Norton, D. C., Fredrick, L. R., Ponchillia, P. E., & Nyhan, J. W. (1971). Correlations of nematodes and soil properties on soybean fields. Journal of Nematology, 3, 154–163.

    CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Ophel-Keller, K., McKay, A., Hartley, D., Herdina, & Curran, J. (2008). Development of a routine DNA-based testing service for soilborne diseases in Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology, 37, 243–253.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Paulitz, T. C. (2006). Low input no-till cereal production in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.: the challenges of root diseases. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 115, 271–281.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Paulitz, T. C., Smiley, R. W., & Cook, R. J. (2002). Insights into the prevalence and management of soil borne cereal pathogens under direct seeding in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, 24, 416–428.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perie, C., & Ouimet, R. (2008). Organic carbon, organic matter and bulk density relationships in boreal forest soils. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 88, 315–325.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Rossi, J.-P., Delaville, L., & Queneherve, P. (1996). Microspatial structure of a plant parasitic nematode community in a sugarcane field in Martinique. Applied Soil Ecology, 3, 17–26.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sasaki, T., Okayasu, T., Shirato, Y., Jamsran, U., Okubo, S., & Takeuchi, K. (2008). Can edaphic factors demonstrate landscape-scale differences in vegetation responses to grazing? Plant Ecology, 194, 51–66.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schroeder, K. L., & Paulitz, T. C. (2006). Root diseases of wheat and barley during the transition from conventional tillage to direct seeding. Plant Disease, 90, 1247–1253.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smiley, R. W. (2009). Root-lesion nematodes reduce yield of intolerant wheat and barley. Agronomy Journal, 101, 1322–1335.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smiley, R. W. (2015). Root-lesion nematodes: Biology and management in Pacific Northwest wheat cropping systems. In PNW Extension Bulletin 617 (14 p). Corvallis: Oregon State Univ.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smiley, R. W., & Machado, S. (2009). Pratylenchus neglectus reduces yield of winter wheat in dryland cropping systems. Plant Disease, 93, 263–271.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smiley, R. W., & Nicol, J. M. (2009). Nematodes which challenge global wheat production. In B. F. Carver (Ed.), Wheat Science and Trade (pp. 171–187). Ames: Wiley-Blackwell.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Smiley, R. W., & Yan, G. (2015). Discovery of Heterodera filipjevi in Washington and comparative virulence with H. avenae on wheat. Plant Disease, 99, 376–386.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smiley, R. W., Merrifield, K., Patterson, L. M., Whittaker, R. G., Gourlie, J. A., & Easley, S. A. (2004). Nematodes in dryland field crops in the semiarid Pacific Northwest USA. Journal of Nematology, 36, 54–68.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Smiley, R. W., Whittaker, R. G., Gourlie, J. A., & Easley, S. A. (2005a). Pratylenchus thornei associated with reduced wheat yield in Oregon. Journal of Nematology, 37, 45–54.

    PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Smiley, R. W., Whittaker, R. G., Gourlie, J. A., & Easley, S. A. (2005b). Suppression of wheat growth and yield by Pratylenchus neglectus in the Pacific Northwest. Plant Disease, 89, 958–968.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smiley, R. W., Sheedy, J. G., & Easley, S. A. (2008). Vertical distribution of Pratylenchus spp. in silt loam soil and Pacific Northwest dryland crops. Plant Disease, 92, 1662–1668.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smiley, R. W., Machado, S., Gourlie, J. A., Pritchett, L. C., Yan, G. P., & Jacobsen, E. E. (2013). Effects of crop rotation and tillage on Pratylenchus spp. in the semiarid Pacific Northwest United States. Plant Disease, 97, 537–546.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smiley, R. W., Gourlie, J. A., Yan, G. P., & Rhinhart, K. E. L. (2014a). Resistance and tolerance of landrace wheat in fields infested with Pratylenchus neglectus and P. thornei. Plant Disease, 98, 797–805.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smiley, R. W., Yan, G. P., & Gourlie, J. A. (2014b). Selected Pacific Northwest crops as hosts of Pratylenchus neglectus and P. thornei. Plant Disease, 98, 1341–1348.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Smiley, R. W., Machado, S., Rhinhart, K. E. L., Reardon, C. L., & Wuest, S. B. (2016). Rapid quantification of soilborne pathogen communities in wheat-based long-term field experiments. Plant Disease, 100, 1692–1708.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stirling, G. L. (2011). Suppressive biological factors influence populations of root lesion nematode (Pratylenchus thornei) on wheat in vertosols from the northern grain-growing region of Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40, 416–429.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Strausbaugh, C. A., Bradley, C. A., Koehn, A. C., & Forster, R. L. (2004). Survey of root diseases of wheat and barley in southeastern Idaho. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, 26, 167–176.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sumac, D. A., & Kinkel, L. L. (2001). Suppression of the root-lesion nematode (Pratylenchus penetrans) in alfalfa (Medicago sativa) by Streptomyces spp. Plant and Soil, 235, 35–44.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Taylor, S. P., Hollaway, G. J., & Hunt, C. H. (2000). Effect of field crops on population densities of Pratylenchus neglectus and P. thornei in Southeastern Australia; part 1: P. neglectus. Journal of Nematology, 32, 591–599.

    CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Thompson, J. P., Owen, K. J., Stirling, G. R., & Bell, M. J. (2008). Root-lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus thornei and P. neglectus): a review of recent progress in managing a significant pest of grain crops in northern Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology, 37, 235–242.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Thompson, A. L., Smiley, R. W., Paulitz, T. C., & Garland-Campbell, K. (2016). Identification of resistance to Pratylenchus neglectus and Pratylenchus thornei in Iranian landrace accessions of wheat. Crop Science, 56, 654–672.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Townshend, J. L., & Webber, L. R. (1971). Movement of Pratylenchus penetrans and the moisture characteristics of three Ontario soils. Nematologica, 17, 47–57.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vanstone, V. A., Hollaway, G. J., & Stirling, G. R. (2008). Managing nematode pests in the southern and western regions of the Australian cereal industry: Continuing progress in a challenging environment. Australasian Plant Pathology, 37, 220–234.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wallace, M. K., Rust, R. H., Hawkins, D. M., & MacDonald, D. H. (1993). Correlation of edaphic factors with plant-parasitic nematode population densities in a forage field. Journal of Nematology, 25, 642–653.

    CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Widmer, T. L., Mitkowski, N. A., & Abawi, G. S. (2002). Soil organic matter and management of plant-parasitic nematodes. Journal of Nematology, 34, 289–295.

    CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Yeates, G. W. (1981). Nematode populations in relation to soil environmental factors- a review. Pedabiologia, 22, 312–338.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgements

We thank Dave Uberuaga for his help with ArcGIS and making the distribution maps. We also thank US-AID/CIMMYT, the Washington Grain Commission, and the scholarship fund of the Cook Agronomy Farm.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. USDA-ARS Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit, 1636 E. Alisal St., Salinas, CA, 93905, USA

    Shyam L. Kandel

  2. Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center, Oregon State University, P.O. Box 370, Pendleton, OR, 97801, USA

    Richard W. Smiley

  3. USDA-ARS Wheat Health, Genetics and Quality Research Unit, Washington State University, P.O. Box 6430, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA

    Kimberly Garland-Campbell & Timothy C. Paulitz

  4. Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA

    Axel A. Elling

  5. USDA-ARS Northwest Sustainable Agroecosystems Research Unit, Washington State University, P.O. Box 6420, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA

    David Huggins

Authors
  1. Shyam L. Kandel
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Richard W. Smiley
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Kimberly Garland-Campbell
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Axel A. Elling
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. David Huggins
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Timothy C. Paulitz
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Timothy C. Paulitz.

Ethics declarations

The research was financially supported by US-AID/CIMMYT, the Washington Grain Commission, and the scholarship fund of the Cook Agronomy Farm.

Conflict of interest

All the authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Ethical statement

This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.

Additional information

Kandel, S. L., Smiley, R. W., Garland-Campbell, K., Elling, A. A., Huggins, D., and Paulitz, T. C. 2017. Spatial distribution of root lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus spp.) in a long-term no-till cropping system and their relationship with soil and landscape properties. European Journal of Plant Pathology

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Kandel, S.L., Smiley, R.W., Garland-Campbell, K. et al. Spatial distribution of root lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus spp.) in a long-term no-till cropping system and their relationship with soil and landscape properties. Eur J Plant Pathol 150, 1011–1021 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-017-1341-3

Download citation

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-017-1341-3

Keywords

Search

Navigation