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The Status of Heterodera avenae on Cereals in New Zealand1
Author(s) -
Grandison G.S.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
eppo bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.327
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1365-2338
pISSN - 0250-8052
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2338.1982.tb01811.x
Subject(s) - heterodera avenae , agronomy , crop , biology , crop rotation , nematode , yield (engineering) , heterodera , ecology , materials science , metallurgy
The cereal cyst nematode (Heterodera avenae) was discovered in New Zealand in 1975 on wheat and oats. It was not at that time causing appreciable economic losses in yield, presumably because usual management practice incorporated a good crop rotation with lucerne. However, now that the growing of cereals has become more profitable, farmers are tending to grow consecutive cereal crops and more damage from H. avenae is being experienced. On one farm, up to 9 % of an oat crop was lost due to this nematode. The biotype has not yet been determined.