South Africa: an important soybean producer in sub-Saharan Africa and the quest for managing nematode pests of the crop

G Engelbrecht, S Claassens, CMS Mienie, H Fourie - Agriculture, 2020 - mdpi.com
With an increase in the global population, a protein-rich crop like soybean can help manage
food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The expansion of soybean production in recent …

Symbiosis of soybean with nitrogen fixing bacteria affected by root lesion nematodes in a density-dependent manner

A Elhady, J Hallmann, H Heuer - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Early maturing varieties of soybean have a high yield potential in Europe, where the main
biotic threat to soybean cultivation are root lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus spp.). Nitrogen …

Two New Rhizobiales Species Isolated from Root Nodules of Common Sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia) Show Different Plant Colonization Strategies

S Ashrafi, N Kuzmanović, S Patz… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Root nodules of legume plants are primarily inhabited by rhizobial nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
Here, we propose two new Rhizobiales species isolated from root nodules of common …

Priming Soybean cv. Primus Leads to Successful Systemic Defense Against the Root-Lesion Nematode, Pratylenchus penetrans

S Adss, B Liu, L Beerhues, V Hahn, H Heuer… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Root lesion nematodes, Pratylenchus penetrans, are major pests of legumes with little
options for their control. We aimed to prime soybean cv. Primus seedlings to improve basic …

Development of a multiplex RT-PCR assay for the detection of soybean mosaic virus, bean common mosaic virus and cucumber mosaic virus in field samples of …

B Xue, J Shang, J Yang, L Zhang, JB Du, L Yu… - Journal of Virological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soybean is susceptible to viral diseases which are often present as mixed infections. The
individual simplex RT-PCR methods used for the identification of multiple viruses are more …

Cyst Nematode (Heterodera glycines) Problems in Soybean (Glycine max L.) Crops and Its Management

GY Wendimu - Advances in Agriculture, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soybean is a leguminous crop that originated from Southeast Asia, and it was domesticated
in the northeastern parts of China. Recently, it has been highly produced in the United …

Role of Trichoderma spp. in the Management of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes Infesting Important Crops

DSS Ibrahim, MM Elderiny, RA Ansari, R Rizvi… - … : Recent Advances and …, 2020 - Springer
Phytonematodes can be considered as one of the main obstacles of quantitative and
qualitative production of many important crops throughout the world. The strident importance …

Screening of rhizosphere bacteria and nematode populations associated with soybean roots in the Mpumalanga Highveld of South Africa

G Engelbrecht, S Claassens, CMS Mienie, H Fourie - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Soybean is among South Africa's top crops in terms of production figures. Over the past few
years there has been increasingly more damage caused to local soybean by plant-parasitic …

Unveiling the structure and distribution of plant-parasitic nematode communities in soybean fields in southern of the Brazil

LAY Márquez, CB Gomes, C Bellé, LJ Dallagnol… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Our study aimed to assess the structure and distribution of plant-parasitic nematodes in
soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr] in the south of Brazil. High taxonomical diversity was found …

An ex vitro hairy root system from petioles of detached soybean leaves for in planta screening of target genes and CRISPR strategies associated with nematode …

NS Freitas-Alves, CE Moreira-Pinto, FBM Arraes… - Planta, 2024 - Springer
Main conclusion The ex vitro hairy root system from petioles of detached soybean leaves
allows the functional validation of genes using classical transgenesis and CRISPR …