Two nematode soil sample analysis options

The Iowa State University Plant Disease Clinic offers two different nematode analyses for soil samples--the complete nematode count and the soybean cyst nematode (SCN) egg count. Following is a description of how the two analyses differ and when each analysis should be requested. A complete nematode count gives a count of the worm stages of plant-parasitic nematodes in a soil sample. This analysis does not give a count of the SCN eggs that may be contained in the sample