Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore-641 007.
*Part of thesis submitted by senior author for the fulfilment of Ph.D. degree; Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore-641 046.
The study on host status of different crops showed that brinjal, cabbage, foxtail millet and soybean are most favourable hosts for P. zeae. Turmip, red gram, opra, pearl millet were moderately fabourable whereas sunhump, sesame, groundnut, green gram, fennel, corriander, mustard and tomato were poor hosts.
Pratylenchus zeae, sugarcane
