Other Plant Disease -- Cambodia
Jon Eisenback and Paulo Viera, Virginia Polytechnic Institute [USA], conducted nematode surveys on rice in the south of [Cambodia]. They found that the rice fields they surveyed showed a significant loss of production caused by the rice root nematode.
"Every root we looked at had lesions," Eisenback said. The culprit was a parasitic nematode called _Hirschmanniella mucronata_. "Rice roots should be creamy white. These were speckled with brown and orange lesions."
He expects that these
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