Turkish Journal of Entomology (2012) 36, 491-499

Mustafa Imren, Lieven Waeyenberge, Nicole Viaene, Halil Toktay, Amer Dababat and I. Halil Elekçioglu (2012)
Molecular characterization of cereal cyst nematodes from the South Anatolian Region in Turkey using ITS-rDNA sequences
Turkish Journal of Entomology 36 (4), 491-499
Abstract: The Heterodera avenae group includes 12 species feeding on roots of cereals. Three species, Heterodera avenae Wollenweber, 1924, Heterodera filipjevi (Madzhidov, 1981) Stelter, 1984 and Heterodera latipons Franklin, 1969 are among the most economically important cyst nematode pests of cereals cultivated in different parts of Turkey. In this study, forty seven cereal cyst nematode isolates collected from cereal growing areas of the South Anatolian Region of Turkey (Hatay, Kahramanmaraş, Gaziantep, Kilis, Mardin and Adıyaman), were identified by using sequence analysis of the Internal Transcribed Spacer region of the ribosomal DNA (ITS-rDNA). Based on phylogenetic analysis using ITS-rDNA sequences, H. avenae, H. filipjevi, H. latipons and Heterodera ciceri Vovlas, Greco and Di Vito, 1985 were identified. 76,5 % of the isolates were characterized as H. latipons, 13 % H. filipjevi, 8,5 % H. avenae and 2 % H. ciceri.
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Database assignments for author(s): Mustafa Imren, Abdelfattah A. Dababat, Halil Toktay, Nicole M. Viaene, Lieven Waeyenberge

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
molecular biology - genes
identification/taxonomy

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Heterodera avenae	Barley (Hordeum vulgare)	Turkey
	Heterodera latipons	Barley (Hordeum vulgare)	Turkey
	Heterodera latipons	Wheat (Triticum)	Turkey
	Heterodera filipjevi	Wheat (Triticum)	Turkey
	Heterodera ciceri	Chickpea (Cicer arietinum)	Turkey