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n. - Any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms.

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  • Brazil, and some other American coffee-producing countries, have a serious disease caused by the eelworm, and for that reason called the eelworm disease.
  • Root eelworm, Heterodera rostochiensis, is a serious pest, particularly in the UK, where losses as high as 50-60 per cent have been reported for early potatoes grown on...
  • Investigations into the resistance of tomatoes to the potato root eelworm, Heterodera rostochiensis Woll
  • It is caused by a parasitic eelworm or nematode, of minute size, which penetrates the roots and induces the formation of numerous irregular swellings or galls, in which...
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