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Nematode Collection Database
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Entry Number: 2650

Disposition of Sample
Specimens to USDANC (General)
Nematode
Meloidogyne sp.
Host
Nicotiana tabacum (Tobacco Field) in/on Soil
Origin
Portugal
Collector
via Luis Gerson L. Reis
Date Collected
1988 Nov 29
Date Received
1988 Dec 12
Slides
G-9748 (juveniles)
Remarks
Note: One juvenile heavily infected - Pasteuria thornei. Spore size about 3.5um & endospores about 1.7um in diameter which would indicate Pasteuria thornei. Starr, M. P. & R. M. Sayre 1988. First report from Portugal of Pasteuria.