Pearl Millet Diseases

Table 6. Geographic distribution of plant parasitic nematodes associated with pearl millet*

Nematode species	Country
Aphelenchoides sp.	India
Aphelenchus sp.	India
Belonolaimus longicaudatus Rau	USA
Criconemella sp.	Senegal
Criconemoides sp.	USA
Ditylenchus sp.	India
Dolichorhynchus sp.	Senegal
Helicotylenchus dihystera (Cobb) Sher	Gambia, India, Senegal
Helicotylenchus indicus Siddiqui	India
Helicotylenchus sp.	India
Heterodera delvii Jairajpuri, Khan, Setty, & Govindu	India
Heterodera gambiensis Merny & Netscher	Gambia
Heterodera sorghi Jain, Sethi, Swarup, & Srivastava	India
Hirschmanniella mucronata Das	India
Hirschmanniella oryzae (van Breda de Haan) Luc & Goodey	India
Hoplolaimus indicus Sher	India
Hoplolaimus pararobustus (Sch. Stekh. & Teunissen) Sher	Senegal
Longidorus elongatus (de Man) Thorne & Swanger	India
Longidorus sp.	India, Senegal
Macroposthonia ornata (Raski) de Grisse & Loof	India
Meloidogyne graminicola Golden & Birchfield	India
Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid & White) Chitwood	India, USA
Meloidogyne javanica (Treub) Chitwood	India, Malawi, USA, Zimbabwe
Meloidogyne sp.	Gambia, India, Senegal
Orientylus varus Jairajpuri & Siddiqi	India
Paratrichodorus christiei (Allen) Siddiqi	USA
Paratrichodorus minor (Colbran) Siddiqi	Senegal
Paratylenchus sp.	India, Senegal
Peltamigratus sp.	Gambia, Senegal
Pratylenchus brachyurus (Godfrey) Filipjev & Sch. Stekh.	USA
Pratylenchus mulchandi Nandakumar & Khera	India
Pratylenchus sefaensis Fortuner	Gambia, Senegal
Pratylenchus zeae Graham	India, USA
Pratylenchus sp.	India, Gambia, Senegal, USA
Radopholus similis (Cobb) Thorne	India
Rotylenchulus reniformis Lidford & Oliviera	India
Scutellonema sp.	India
Senegalonema sorghi Germani, Luc, & Baldwin	Senegal
Telotylenchus sp.	Gambia, Senegal
Trichodorus sp.	Gambia
Trichotylenchus sp.	Gambia, Senegal
Tylenchorhynchus brassicae Siddiqi	India
Tylenchorhynchus gladiolatus Fortuner & Amougou	Gambia, Senegal
Tylenchorhynchus indicus Siddiqi	India
Tylenchorhynchus mashoodi Siddiqi & Basir	India
Tylenchorhynchus phaseoli Sethi & Swarup	India
Tylenchorhynchus vulgaris Upadhyay	India
Tylenchorhynchus zeae Sethi & Swarup	India
Tylenchus sp.	Gambia, India
Xiphinema americanum Cobb.	USA
Xiphinema limpopoensis Heyns	South Africa
Xiphinema sp.	India, Gambia, Senegal

* This list is derived from Sharma (1985); used with permission of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India. Appropriate citations are given by Sharma. Title of the original work suggests that while these nematodes are associated with pearl millet, pathogenicity may not have been confirmed.

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Original posting: June 5, 1999.