Host Suitability of Selected Small Grain and Field Crops to Criconemella xenoplax. A. P. Nyczepir, Research Nematologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS, Southeastern Fruit and Tree Nut Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 87, Byron, GA 31008. P. F. Bertrand, Professor, Extension Plant Pathologist, University of Georgia, Tifton 31793. Plant Dis. 74:698-701. Accepted for publication 11 March 1990. This article is in the public domain and not copyrightable. It may be freely reprinted with customary crediting of the source. The American Phytopathological Society, 1990. DOI: 10.1094/PD-74-0698.

All soybean and sorghum cultivars tested were suitable hosts for the ring nematode, Criconemella xenoplax. Small grain cultivars and cotton were either poor hosts or nonhosts as compared to peach. The wheat cultivars Stacy, Coker 916, and Fla-302 were found to be nonhosts and appear to be allelopathic toward C. xenoplax. Rotation of land previously planted to peaches with wheat may prove to be an alternative preplant control method for C. xenoplax and the peach tree short life complex.