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Raças Nematoides Heterodera Glycines
Raças Nematoides Heterodera Glycines
Heterodera gIycines Ichinohe, the soybean maining 11 races in the scheme proposed
cyst nematode (SCN), was first observed in by Golden et al. (2).
the United States in North Carolina (15)
in 1954. Resistance to SCN was readily MATERIALS AND METHODS
available and incorporated into commer- One hundred thirty-eight isolates of SCN
cial soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) (10). were collected from farms in Arkansas,
Within 5 years of commercial use of resis- Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi,
tance, physiological variation was reported North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wis-
in SCN (9). Other variants, based on mat- consin in the United States and Indonesia
uration of SCN females on differential soy- and People's Republic of China. T h e 67
bean cultivars, were reported (8,12). Phys- samples obtained by the University o f Ar-
iological strains of SCN were reported from kansas were each divided and placed in two
Japan (13), and Miller (6) differentiated 11 15-cm-d clay pots containing fine sand. T w o
groups. A procedure for separating races, 'Lee' soybean seedlings were transplanted
using four differentials and a susceptible into each pot and allowed to grow 6 weeks
standard, was established in 1970 (2). Four to increase the population. Cysts were ob-
races were named at that time, and race 5 tained by a roiling and sieving method,
was added in 1979 (3). Sixteen races were broken in a blender, and sieved (250-#m-
possible with this scheme, but the lack of pore) to remove unbroken cysts (7). Each
characterization of them has led to diffi- isolate was tested using the original pre-
culty in communication among breeders, scribed soybean differentials 'Pickett', 'Pe-
researchers, and others working with SCN. king', PI 88788, and PI 90763 (2). Lee was
Many populations from Arkansas (7), Flor- the standard against which female matu-
ida (4), Indiana (1), Iowa (16), Minnesota ration on each differential was measured.
(5), and North Carolina (11) are not races Seeds of the soybean differentials were ger-
1-5. minated in vermiculite and transplanted
Our objective is to designate the re- singly into 7.5-cm-d clay pots when coty-
ledons opened. Each cultivar or line was
transplanted into three pots. Plants were
Received for publication 15 January 1987. inoculated 2 days later with 4,000 eggs and
t Approved for publication by the directors of the Arkansas second-stage juveniles in a 10-ml suspen-
Agricultural Experiment Station and the North Carolina Ag-
ricultural Research Service. sion. All plants were grown in a green-
Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of house at 25-30 C. Thirty days after inoc-
Arkansas, Fayettevil/e, AR 72701.
s AssociateProfessor, Department of Plant Pathology, North ulation, cysts and females were collected
Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695. and counted. Each pot was processed by
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Race S c h e m e f o r H. glycines: Riggs, Schmitt 393
TABLE 1. Isolates o f Heterodera glycines tested in each race a n d r a n g e o f indices on each differential.
8. Riggs, R. D., D. A. Slack, and M. L. Hamblen. 13. Sugiyama, S., K. Hiruma, J. Miyahara, and K.
1968. New biotype of soybean cyst nematode. Ar- Kohuhun. 1968. Studies on the resistance of soybean
kansas Farm Research 17(5):11. varieties to soybean cyst nematode. II. Differences of
9. Ross, J. P. 1961. Physiological strains of Het- physiological strains of the nematode from Kerawana
erodera glycines. Plant Disease Reporter 46:766-769. and Kikyogahara. Japanese Journal of Breeding 16:
10. Ross, J. P. and C. A. Brim. 1957. Resistance 206-212.
of soybeans to the soybean cyst nematode as deter- 14. Triantaphyllou, A. C. 1975. Genetic structure
mined by the double-row method. Plant Disease Re- of races of Heteroderaglycines and inheritance of ability
porter 41:923-924. to reproduce on resistant soybeans. Journal of Nema-
11. Schmitt, D. P,, and K. R. Barker. 1988. In- tology 7:356-364.
cidence of plant-parasitic nematodes in the Coastal 15. Winstead, N. N., C. B. Skotland, andJ. N. Sas-
Plain of North Carolina. Plant Disease 72:107-110. ser. 1955. Soybean-cyst nematode in North Carolina.
12. Smart, G. C., Jr. 1964. Physiological sti'ains Plant Disease Reporter 39:9-11.
and one additional host of the soybean cyst nematode, 16. Zirakparvar, M. E., and D. C. Norton. 1981.
Heterodera glycines. Plant Disease Reporter 48:542- Population characteristics ofHeterodera glycines in Iowa.
543. Plant Disease 65'.807-809.
N o t e : A f t e r this m a n u s c r i p t h a d b e e n s u b m i t t e d t o t h e p r i n t e r , t h e a u t h o r s w e r e
m a d e a w a r e o f t h e f o l l o w i n g a b s t r a c t . C h e n , P. H., D. S. Z h a n g , a n d S. Y. C h e n . 198?.
F i r s t r e p o r t o n a n e w p h y s i o l o g i c a l r a c e (race 7) o f s o y b e a n cyst n e m a t o d e (Heterodera
glycines). J o u r n a l o f t h e C h i n e s e A c a d e m y o f A g r i c u l t u r a l S c i e n c e s 2 0 : 9 4 (Abstr.). T h e
authors have adjusted their race designations accordingly.