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Pasteuria penetrans and its potential for the control of nematodes in Ghana

Hemeng, B.M.S.; Gowen, S.R.

Acta Horticulturae 635: 107-114

2004


ISSN/ISBN: 0567-7572
Accession: 004262503

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Shade house studies were undertaken at KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana to assess the potential of 2 isolates of Pasteuria penetrans from Malawi and Trinidad, singly and in a mixture, for the control of a mixed population of root-knot nematodes, Meloidogyne species. A local cultivar of tomato used as a test crop was inoculated (at transplanting) with second stage Meloidogyne larvae pre-encumbered with the bacteria.

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