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<p>Pistachio, <italic>Pistacia vera</italic> is one of the most important cash crops in Iran that is scattered in arid and semi-arid regions. During a survey of plant-parasitic nematodes of pistachio in Ardakan city in Yazd Province, a species of root-lesion nematode was isolated and identified by morphological, morphometrical, and molecular methods as <italic>Pratylenchus oleae</italic> Palomares-Rius et al., 2014. This species was isolated from several pistachio trees rhizosphere regarding to molecular analysis, D2–D3 expansion segments of 28S rRNA was amplified by PCR and sequenced. The sequence was deposited in GenBank (Accession No. MW338666). Along with the related phylogenetic analysis, placed this species in a monophyletic clade with other <italic>Pratylenchus oleae</italic> isolates, based on Bayesian inference (BI) phylogeny. A PCR reaction with the <italic>P. oleae</italic> specific primer set produced a 547 bp fragment. This is the first report of <italic>P. oleae</italic> infecting Pistachio tree in the world.</p>
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Pistachio, Pistacia vera is one of the most important cash crops in Iran that is scattered in arid and semi-arid regions. During a survey of plant-parasitic nematodes of pistachio in Ardakan city in Yazd Province, a species of root-lesion nematode was isolated and identified by morphological, morphometrical, and molecular methods as Pratylenchus oleae Palomares-Rius et al., 2014. This species was isolated from several pistachio trees rhizosphere regarding to molecular analysis, D2–D3 expansion segments of 28S rRNA was amplified by PCR and sequenced. The sequence was deposited in GenBank (Accession No. MW338666). Along with the related phylogenetic analysis, placed this species in a monophyletic clade with other Pratylenchus oleae isolates, based on Bayesian inference (BI) phylogeny. A PCR reaction with the P. oleae specific primer set produced a 547 bp fragment. This is the first report of P. oleae infecting Pistachio tree in the world.

<article-title xml:lang="en">First report of root-lesion nematode, <italic>Pratylenchus oleae</italic> from <italic>p</italic>istachio in Iran

Journal of Nematology

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First report of root-lesion nematode,  from istachio in Iran

Pistachio, Pistacia vera is one of the most important cash crops in Iran that is scattered in arid and semi-arid regions. During a survey of plant-parasitic...

First report of root-lesion nematode, Pratylenchus oleae from pistachio in Iran

Published Online: Dec 08, 2021

Page range: 1 - 7

Received: Aug 31, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/jofnem-2021-103

Keywords
Molecular taxonomy, Phylogeny, Pratylenchus

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

First report of root-lesion nematode, Pratylenchus oleae from pistachio in Iran

Published Online: Dec 08, 2021

Page range: 1 - 7

Received: Aug 31, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/jofnem-2021-103

KeywordsMolecular taxonomy, Phylogeny, Pratylenchus

© 2021 Farhad Saeidi Naeini et al.Saeidi Naeini et al., published by Sciendo.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Molecular taxonomy, Phylogeny, Pratylenchus