The importance of organic matter when assaying Meloidogyne chitwoodi soil populations

Russian Journal of Nematology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 147-152

  Chen, Shulong ^a   Hendrickx, Gerard ^a   Moens, Maurice ^a,b  

^a WALLOON AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conventional centrifugation; Extraction method; Meloidogyne chitwoodi; Root maceration; Soil fraction; Zonal centrifugation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347935955     PISSN: 08696918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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