A consortium of six agricultural seed companies has announced that it will be the first to sell soybean varieties that offer high yield and complete resistance to all known types of soybean cyst ...

Imagine being able to test for 15 types of cancer from just a drop of urine at a high sensitivity. That’s what a primary cancer-screening test based on nematodes offers. The biology of cancer is ...

ALTHOUGH there are many species of predaceous fungi that capture and kill nematodes in soil, there are little if any data in the literature to indicate if they are preferentially stimulated by roots.

Root-knot nematodes (RKN, Meloidogynespp.) are microscopic roundworms that feed on plant roots. M. incognita, the Southern root-knot nematode, is the most common RKN species in the region. Once RKN ...

Everyone has a past. That includes the millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nematode worms that make up a major animal group called the Ecdysozoa. Until recently, details about this ...