Top 10 plant-parasitic nematodes in molecular plant pathology

• Published in: Molecular plant pathology Vol. 14; no. 9; pp. 946 - 961
• Main Authors: Jones, John T., Haegeman, Annelies, Danchin, Etienne G. J., Gaur, Hari S., Helder, Johannes, Jones, Michael G. K., Kikuchi, Taisei, Manzanilla-López, Rosa, Palomares-Rius, Juan E., Wesemael, Wim M. L., Perry, Roland N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-12-2013; Blackwell; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Wiley; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Agricultural sciences; Animals; Biological and medical sciences; bursaphelenchus-xylophilus; Control; d2-d3 expansion segments; expressed sequence tags; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; grapevine-fanleaf-virus; knot nematodes; Life Sciences; Microbiology and Parasitology; nacobbus-aberrans thorne; Nematoda - physiology; Nematodes; Pathology; Phytopathology. Animal pests. Plant and forest protection; Plant Diseases - parasitology; Plant Roots - parasitology; Plants - parasitology; Protozoa. Invertebrates; radopholus-similis; Ratings & rankings; real-time pcr; Review; root-lesion nematode; xiphinema-index; Plant pathology; Pest; Helmintha; Nemathelminthia; Invertebrata; Molecular domain; Nematoda
• ISSN: 1464-6722; 1364-3703
• DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12057

Summary
The aim of this review was to undertake a survey of researchers working with plant‐parasitic nematodes in order to determine a ‘top 10’ list of these pathogens based on scientific and economic importance. Any such list will not be definitive as economic importance will vary depending on the region of the world in which a researcher is based. However, care was taken to include researchers from as many parts of the world as possible when carrying out the survey. The top 10 list emerging from the survey is composed of: (1) root‐knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.); (2) cyst nematodes (Heterodera and Globodera spp.); (3) root lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus spp.); (4) the burrowing nematode Radopholus similis; (5) Ditylenchus dipsaci; (6) the pine wilt nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus; (7) the reniform nematode Rotylenchulus reniformis; (8) Xiphinema index (the only virus vector nematode to make the list); (9) Nacobbus aberrans; and (10) Aphelenchoides besseyi. The biology of each nematode (or nematode group) is reviewed briefly.