GK
SOIL AND AGRICULTURE
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Heterodera jae
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Heterodera cajani
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Heterodera schacti
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Heterodera avanae
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Detailed explanation-1: -Heterodera schachtii, the beet cyst eelworm or sugarbeet nematode, is a plant pathogenic nematode. It infects more than 200 different plants including economically important crops such as sugar beets, cabbage, broccoli, and radish. H. schachtii is found worldwide.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cyst-forming nematodes (Heterodera spp.) are highly specialized and economically important soil-borne parasites attacking numerous agricultural crops (Greco et al., 2002).
Detailed explanation-3: -noun. Het·er·od·era. ˌhetəˈrädərə : a genus (the type of the family Heteroderidae of the superfamily Tylenchoidea) of minute nematode worms many of which attack the roots and underground stems of various cultivated plants (as sugar beets, potatoes, peas) compare golden nematode, root-knot nematode.