Melilotus indica and Chenopodium murale as new hosts of Meloidogyne incognita in Pakistan
Melilotus indica and Chenopodium murale as new hosts of Meloidogyne incognita in Pakistan
M.A. Haq†, K. Mahmood*, M. Shahid*, S.A. Khan and A. Tahir**
ABSTRACT
Melilotus indica (sanji or yellow sweet clover) and Chenopodium murale (krund) were recorded as
new hosts of root-knot nematode (RKN) in the area around the Plant Pathology Research Institute,
Ayub Agricultural Research Institute, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Yellow sweet clover and krund roots
found moderately infested with root-knot nematode galls and whitish pear-shaped mature females
were isolated from these root-galls. On these hosts, the most common and abundant species of rootknot
nematode M. incognita (Kofoid & White, 1919) Chitwood, 1949 was identified on the basis of
perineal patterns (Eisenback et al., 1981). These new host records of M. incognita have not been
hitherto reported in Pakistan (Zarina & Maqbool, 1991; Maqbool & Shahina, 2001; Khanzada &
Khan, 2003; Zarina, 2004; Khan et al., 2005; Erum et al., 2005; Shahid et al., 2006, 2007, 2008;
Shahina et al., 2009; Haq et al., 2012).
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June 2014
Pakistan Journal of Nematology, Vol. 32, Iss. 1, Pages 1-122
