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Biological Control of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes: pp 171–182Cite as

Ecology of Pochonia chlamydosporia in the Rhizosphere at the Population, Whole Organism and Molecular Scales

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Abstract

Pochonia chlamydosporia is a facultative egg parasite of cyst and root-knot nematodes. It is a widely distributed parasite and it has been developed as a biological control agent. It appears to have only limited growth in soil and chlamydospores are an important survival stage of the fungus. The fungus can however proliferate in the rhizosphere where it presumably grows on plant root exudates but in the presence of plant-parasitic nematodes it can switch its trophic state and become a parasite of nematode eggs. The molecular mechanism by which it becomes a nematode parasite will be reviewed in the context of biodiversity and how to identify nematode pathogenic strains. The relationship between parasitism and fungal abundance in relationship to infection processes will also be discussed.

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Kerry, B.R., Hirsch, P.R. (2011). Ecology of Pochonia chlamydosporia in the Rhizosphere at the Population, Whole Organism and Molecular Scales. In: Davies, K., Spiegel, Y. (eds) Biological Control of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes:. Progress in Biological Control, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9648-8_7

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