REVIEW ARTICLE – REVISIÓN POTATO CYST NEMATODES: PLANT HOST STATUS AND THEIR REGULATORY IMPACT M. J. Sullivan,1* R. N. Inserra,2 J. Franco,3 I. Moreno-Leheudé,4 and N. Greco5 1USDA-APHIS-PPQ-CPHST, National Weeds Management Laboratory, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A., 2Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, DPI, Nematology Section, Gainesville, Florida 32614-7100, USA, 3Promoción e Investigación de Productos Andinos, PROINPA, Casilla 4285, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 4Ministerio de Agricultura, ServicioAgrícola y Ganadero, Av. Bul- nes 140, Santiago, Chile, 5Istituto per la Protezione delle Piante, Sezione di Bari, C.N.R., via Amendo- la 122-D, 70126 Bari, Italy. *Corresponding author:
[email protected] ABSTRACT Sullivan, M. J., R. N. Inserra, J. Franco, I. Moreno-Leheudé, and N. Greco. 2007. Potato cyst nema- todes: Plant host status and their regulatory impact. Nematropica 37:193-201. The known host range of potato cyst nematodes (PCN) (Globodera pallida and G. rostochiensis) in- cludes mainly Solanum species and a few species of Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Physalis, Physoclai- na, Salpiglossis, and Saracha, all in the Solanaceae family. The unreported results of a host study conducted in Chile using a local population of Globodera rostochiensis pathotype Ro1 indicate that Datura ferox, Nicotiana acuminata, Solanum ligustrinum and S. pinnatum allowed nematode infection and reproduction. Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) was not infected by potato cyst nematodes in field and green- house studies conducted in Bolivia and Peru. These findings conflict with those of a previous report of Globodera populations infecting oca. An updated list of potential PCN hosts based on the literature and on the current study is included in this paper.