Nematodes produce hundreds of distinct effectors, providing redundancy and a capacity for rapid adaptation. "You take one effector away and a nematode laughs and says, 'I've got 10 more,'" he said.

A new study opens new avenues for combating soybean cyst nematodes, the most damaging pest for U.S. soybean crops. Targeting a newly discovered vulnerability in the signals that cyst nematodes use ...

Nematodes can jump up to 20 times their body length - AdobeStock The device, made up of a silicone rod with a carbon-fibre spine, was made after watching high-speed video of nematodes pressing ...

The researchers made it after watching high-speed video of nematodes pinching themselves into odd shapes to fling themselves forward and backward. The researchers described the soft robot April 23 in ...

A photo of a cyst nematode's head viewed through a high-power microscope shows its esophageal glands, which produce effectors it uses to infect host plants. The image was digitally edited to highlight ...

Together, they'll repel everything from aphids to nematodes, and the marigolds will keep slugs away from your basil. In most cases, marigolds are the helper in the companion plant relationship ...

Published in the journal Plant Pathology, the study used advanced microscopy to trace how the BLD-causing nematode, Litylenchus crenatae subsp. mccannii, alters leaf structure and function in ...

Chlorophyll-depleted European beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaves stained with acid fuchsin reveal the presence of beech leaf disease (BLD)-causing nematodes (pink) in symptomatic samples (right ...

THE following is an outline of a method of obtaining large numbers of the larvæ of nematodes parasitic in sheep in media the composition of which can be much more accurately controlled than any ...

From nematode sex to subjective human experience Starting small has enabled scientists to build a suite of techniques and technologies that have allowed them to lever up to bigger and more complex ...