Further Observations on Nematodes Associated With High Altitude Plants, Forest and Medicinal of Phulbani District (Orissa)

Abstract

Seventeen forest plants species harboured as many as 25 nematode species. Association of 22 phytoparasitic nematode species were noticed on 35 different medicinal plants. Rotylenchulus reniformis and Helicotvlenchus dihystera were found to be present in large numbers and were associated with most of the plants species examined. As many as 7 types of plant feeding nematode species were associated with Asparagus racemosus, 5 different nematode species were recovered from Cinnamomum camphora. Curcuma longa, Erythrinae variegata, Tylophora indica, 4 nematode types wore noticed on each of Achyranthes aspera, Camellia chinensis, Curcuma longa (wild), coffea robusta, Ficus carica, Heritiera minor and in Piper nigrum and 3 nematode species were Isolated from each of Adhatoda vasica, Cymbopogon flexuosa, Zingiber officinale, Vitis quadrangularis, Stephania hernandifolia, Sida cordifolia. Piper longum