A Technique for Screening Peanut for Resistance to Meloidogyne arenaria. C. C. Holbrook, Former Graduate Student, Department of Agronomy, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611. D. A. Knauft, Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, and D. W. Dickson, Professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611. Plant Dis. 67:957-958. Accepted for publication 14 February 1983. Copyright 1983 American Phytopathological Society. DOI: 10.1094/PD-67-957.

Two hundred ninety-three peanut accessions were screened for resistance to the peanut root-knot nematode using visual galling and egg-mass ratings. Staining with phloxine B greatly expedited the egg mass screening process. No high level of resistance was observed in any of the accessions evaluated.