Relative Resistance of Sixteen Southern Pea Cultivars to Root-Knot. Wesley Witcher, Professor, Department of Plant Pathology and Physiology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0377. Wayne L. Ogle, Professor, Department of Horticulture, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0377. Plant Dis. 71:399-402. Accepted for publication 27 August 1986. Copyright 1987 The American Phytopathological Society. DOI: 10.1094/PD-71-0399.

Each of 16 commonly grown cultivars of southern pea were inoculated with a population of Meloidogyne arenaria race 1 or a population of M. incognita race 3. Both nematodes produced some galls on plants of all cultivars. Nine of the 16 cultivars were resistant to M. incognita race 3, and nine were resistant to M. arenaria race 1. All cultivars had fewer galls caused by M. arenaria than by M. incognita.