The nematode species most commonly associated with California strawberries is the northern root-knot nematode (N-RKN), Meloidogyne hapla (Fig. 1). At the Strawberry Center’s Disease Diagnostic Service, we observed an increase in submitted samples with root-knot nematodes present. Four of these nematode samples were submitted to the CDFA diagnostic lab for confirmation of the species. They performed … Continue reading Root-knot nematode diagnostic update