People love the taste of sugar beets' primary byproduct: white sugar. Soilborne cyst nematodes—parasitic, microscopic ...

Farm trials with the UK’s first commercially available beet cyst nematode-tolerant sugar beet have given exceptional yields on infested fenland. Andrew Blake reports Trials at Southery Road Farm ...

Beet cyst nematode is an increasing threat to British sugar beet crops and growers are urged to ramp up soil testing efforts to identify problems and steer management around crop rotations.

Targeting a newly discovered vulnerability in the signals that cyst nematodes use to infect plant roots could be a powerful ...

Did you know that beets can have worms? Sugar beet worms are tiny, almost microscopic. Two types of worms, knot and cyst nematodes, infect more than 200 plant species worldwide. The worms stunt ...

For years, nematologists like Baum have been studying effectors in hope that targeting them could reduce infections by cyst nematodes, which also are prevalent in other crops such as sugar beets and ...

The research team studied this soybean pest’s close cousin, the sugar beet cyst nematode, often used for molecular research because it infects the model plantArabidopsis thaliana, also known as ...

In addition to the desire to reduce the sugar beet cyst nematode population on the farm, Luke and Sara believed the organic matter produced by cover crops would improve patches of high-calcium ...

Tolerant Varieties, Oilseed Radish Cover Crop Extended Rotation Comprise Sylvester Plan Sugarbeet cyst nematode ... Michigan beet growers have fought back against the nematode with longer ...

Baum generated the same sort of data for a close collaborator from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom who studies the sugar beet cyst nematode, which is nearly identical to the ...

For years, nematologists like Baum have been studying effectors in hope that targeting them could reduce infections by cyst nematodes, which also are prevalent in other crops such as sugar beets ...