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- Title
BURSAPHELENCHUS SPECIES (NEMATODA: APHELENCHIDA) ASSOCIATED WITH AN OLIVE TREE IN CENTRAL ITALY (1).
- Authors
TORRINI, GIULIA; STRANGI, AGOSTINO; SIMONCINI, STEFANIA; CUTINO, ILARIA; MAZZA, GIUSEPPE; PENNACCHIO, FABRIZIO; BINAZZI, FRANCESCO; MARIANELLI, LEONARDO; ROVERSI, PIO FEDERICO; GARGANI, ELISABETTA
- Abstract
Olive cultivation is of great economic, ecological, and cultural interest in Italy, as well as in the rest of the Mediterranean basin. Among the pests of olive trees, several groups of insects, mites, and nematodes have been reported. Phytoparasitic nematodes especially of the genera Meloidogyne, Pratylenchus, Helicotylenchus, Xiphinema, Tylenchulus, Rotylenchulus, and Heterodera have usually been extracted from roots and soil around trees. On the other hand, no information is available concerning nematodes directly associated with the wood. At the end of September 2018, in a high-density cultivated olive grove in Tuscany (central Italy), several olive trees with decline symptoms were observed. Three Bursaphelenchus species, B. fungivorus, B. minutus, and B. sexdentati were extracted from the wood of one dead tree. Even though these species had already been reported in Italy, these findings were the first ones recorded in olive wood. Moreover, another undescribed Bursaphelenchus species was found associated with the bark beetle Hylesinus fraxini collected from olive trunks and branches. Further research is needed to investigate the role of insects and Bursaphelenchus spp. in the decline processes of olive trees.
- Subjects
ITALY; BURSAPHELENCHUS; OLIVE diseases &; pests; HETERODERA; APHELENCHIDA; NEMATODES
- Publication
Redia: Journal of Zoology / Giornale di Zoologia, 2020, Vol 103, p121
- ISSN
0370-4327
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19263/REDIA-103.20.19