Preliminary survey of the pinewood nematode in Turkey

• Author(s): Akbulut, Suleyman ; Vieira, Paulo ; Ryss, Alexandre ; Yuksel, Besir ; Keten, Akif ; Mota, Manuel ; Valadas, Vera
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/6683
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Subject(s): Bursaphelenchus xylophilus; pinewood; nematode
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

A survey was conducted in the northern conifer forests of Turkey in 2003 and 2004 for the pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus . Wood samples were collected from declining pine trees, located in the following target areas: Düzce, Ankara, Bolu, and Artvin. Nematodes were extracted from over 310 samples and were observed and identified. B. xylophilus was not detected in any samples. Bursaphelenchus species were only found in 6% of the samples. From the B. xylophilus - group, only the species B. mucronatus was reported. Species identification was performed from morphological characters, particularly male spicules, and by molecular analysis with ITS-RFLP