Nematodes produce hundreds of distinct effectors, providing redundancy and a capacity for rapid adaptation. "You take one effector away and a nematode laughs and says, 'I've got 10 more,'" he said.

A new study opens new avenues for combating soybean cyst nematodes, the most damaging pest for U.S. soybean crops. Targeting a newly discovered vulnerability in the signals that cyst nematodes use ...

A photo of a cyst nematode's head viewed through a high-power microscope shows its esophageal glands, which produce effectors it uses to infect host plants. The image was digitally edited to highlight ...

The researchers made it after watching high-speed video of nematodes pinching themselves into odd shapes to fling themselves forward and backward. The researchers described the soft robot April 23 in ...

U.S. soybean farmers face a $1 billion problem each year in the form of yield losses from soybean cyst nematode (SCN). 1 Yet rather than throw up your hands in defeat, get down in the soil and get ...

Published in the journal Plant Pathology, the study used advanced microscopy to trace how the BLD-causing nematode, Litylenchus crenatae subsp. mccannii, alters leaf structure and function in ...

Nematodirus infection results from the ingestion of large numbers of infective worm larvae present on contaminated pasture. Lambs grazing the same pasture in the previous year were the source of ...

Fortunately, there is an organic, effective, and environmentally friendly way to control pests—beneficial nematodes. These microscopic roundworms are natural predators of many garden pests, providing ...

It announces a talk she was about to give on genes that influence the life span of a type of nematode, a tiny worm that lives in soil. The poster shows a cartoonish illustration of a wizened ...