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Corynetoxins and nematodes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

A. F. Bird
Affiliation:
Division of Horticultural Research, GPO Box 350, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia5001
M. V. Jago
Affiliation:
Division of Animal Health, Private Bag No. 1, Parkville, Victoria, Australia3052
P. A. Cockrum
Affiliation:
Division of Animal Health, Private Bag No. 1, Parkville, Victoria, Australia3052

Extract

Corynetoxins, the toxic glycolipids produced by Corynebacterium rathayi colonizing bacterial galls induced by the seed gall nematode Anguina agrostis in annual ryegrass (Loliurn rigidum), did not affect embryogenesis or larval development of A. agrostis although they did inhibit the rate of egg hatching. Corynetoxins were not toxic to several species of nematode which are parasites of roots nor to various stages of the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegana and they did not appear to influence the numbers of C. rathayi that became attached to the surface of the cuticle of infective larvae of A. agrostis.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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