Analysis of Nematode Interactions with Bacteria

Nematodes are ubiquitous organisms that significantly impact ecosystems, economies, agriculture, and human health. Nematodes and their bacterial associates exist in marine, freshwater, soil, and plant or animal host environments. Nematode-bacterium associations can be beneficial (mutualistic) or harmful (pathogenic/parasitic) and can range from facultative, temporary interactions to stably maintained long-term symbioses. Bacteria can be a potential food source for nematodes. As well as being a food source, bacteria can be pathogens of nematodes.

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Interactions Between Nematodes and Bacterial Pathogens

• Several nematode species act as disseminators of bacterial pathogens by ingesting them and carrying them within the alimentary tract. The extent to which bacteria are transmitted to host plant tissues in this way remains a matter for speculation. However, in many instances where nematodes carry bacterial spores on their body surface, they act as specific vectors. An obligate etiological relationship is established between nematode and bacterial pathogen in the manifestation of the resulting disease.

Fig.1 A multi-pronged assault between nematode and bacteria.

• Lifeasible provides bacterial analysis services for spike blight in wheat, whose spores adhere specifically to the outer cuticle of the nematode and are carried to the spikelet of the plant inflorescence. The infected inflorescence becomes full of a yellow, slimy mass of bacteria instead of normal grains.
• Our list of services includes pathogens, pathogenesis, the life history of nematodes, and the way nematodes and bacteria interact. And in this process, second stage juveniles of the nematode may remain in a state of anhydrobiosis i.e., resistant to desiccation, for many years.
• We also provide other associations between Corynebactium species and nematodes, including C. rathayi interacted with Aphelenchoides agrostis in ryegrass, C. tritici, and A. agrostis in wheat, C. insidiosum and Ditylenchus dipsaci which together cause wilt disease of alfalfa, and C. fascians and A. ritzema-bosi which cause cauliflower disease of strawberry.
• We help to analyze the specific ways in which bacteria and nematodes retransmit pathogens, the ways in which they infect plants, and the ways in which they interact.

Interaction Ways Between Nematodes and Bacteria

• Apart from acting as vectors, the role of nematodes in relation to bacterial pathogens has usually been regarded as providing other ways for bacteria to enter the plant, suggesting a more complex interaction than nematodes being involved simply as wounding agents.
• We assist in analyzing interaction ways between nematodes and bacteria, such as carrying pathogens or bacterial spores in their alimentary tract, the outer cuticle, and body surface, providing wounds on the plants for bacteria, as well as producing a disease complex.

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