| morphological and molecular characterization of a new root-knot nematode, meloidogyne thailandica n. sp. (nematoda: meloidogynidae), parasitizing ginger (zingiber sp.). | a root-knot nematode meloidogyne thailandica n. sp. was discovered on roots of ginger (zingiber spp.) intercepted from thailand in october 2002 by the u.s. department of agriculture animal and plant health inspection service at the port of san francisco. comparison by light microscopy (lm) and scanning electron microscopy (sem) to five other morphologically related species (m. incognita, m. arenaria, m. microcephala, m. megatyla, and m. enterolobii) revealed that the new species differs from the ... | 2005 | 19262883 |