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An acetone extract of Nodularia harveyana wasshown to be toxic to the free-living nematode Cephaloboides oxycerca. This antagonistic effect wastested in pot culture trials with lyophilized biomasson gall induction by the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita, using different methods ofapplication of the cyanobacterial biomass to thetomato plants. The trials revealed a possibleutilization of biomass of this cyanobacterium as aprotection agent against this phytoparasite.
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Pushparaj, B., Pelosi, E. & Caroppo, S. Effect of Nodularia harveyana biomass on the incidence of root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) in tomato. Journal of Applied Phycology 12, 489–492 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008158711743
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