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of several arabica coffee genotypes, evaluation of cultural and chemical management<br />

strategies and investigations on the physiology of parasitism. This presentation will cover an<br />

overview of nematode problems on coffee production worldwide as well as results from the<br />

projects developed by our research group.<br />

Does Nematode-resistance Breeding Deserve a Higher Priority in Tropical<br />

Agriculture? The Case of Banana<br />

Quénéhervé, P.<br />

IRD, UMR Résistance des plantes aux bioagresseurs (IRD-CIRAD-UM2), PRAM, BP 214, F-97285 Le<br />

Lamentin, Martinique, France<br />

Due to increasing awareness about environmental contamination by pesticides, the search for<br />

both plant resistance and/or tolerance to plant-parasitic nematodes is now a major challenge<br />

on most commercial crops. In subtropical and tropical agriculture, the concept of using<br />

resistant/tolerant cultivars is also gaining more attention since it is considered as a more<br />

sustainable management option not only for commercial producers but also for subsistence or<br />

smallholder farmers. However, efforts to screen agricultural crop germplasm for resistance to<br />

plant parasitic nematodes have mainly been focussed at identifying resistance to sedentary<br />

endoparasitic nematodes, such as root knot and cyst nematodes which have the most<br />

specialized host-parasite relationship. Concerning subtropical and tropical agriculture, many<br />

reasons not to look for nematode-resistance were mentioned by the past and reviewed here at<br />

the light of the research on bananas. This paper will review the past decades of research<br />

looking for resistance to nematodes in bananas up to the most recent results. Currently,<br />

screening for nematode resistance is still an ongoing process, particularly as newly developed<br />

banana hybrids become available. The results obtained in the Caribbean on dessert bananas<br />

with the new synthetic hybrids (AAA, Musa acuminata) from CIRAD, originally designed<br />

for their resistance to Mycosphaerella leaf spot diseases, have demonstrated their potentiality<br />

from laboratory to field experiments in their resistance/tolerance to burrowing and lesion<br />

nematodes.<br />

5 th International Congress of Nematology, 2008 66

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