Host suitability of a common oat cultivar Sniper for five plant-parasitic nematode species

A newly bred, common oat cultivar Sniper, which has originated from Tachiibuki, a known fall forage cultivar that suppresses root-knot nematodes damage to succeeding crop of sweet potatoes, was tested to examine its susceptibility to five major nematode species which were distributed in upland of Kyushu, Japan. Sniper showed poor host suitability to the four Meloidogyne species in a pot experiment. Meanwhile, its host suitability for Pratylenchus coffeae was similar to that exhibited by other common oat cultivars examined in this study