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Applying RNAi techniques directly to parasitic nematodes is challenging owing to the organisms' generally longer and more complex life cycles, including the requirement for passage through a host organism.
By contrast, R. radiobacter , which forms a parasitic relationship with plants by producing a crown gall rather than nodules, lacks these genes, and appears to possess only nodL , nodX and nodN , suggesting these three nod genes are sufficient to affect root growth and are involved in a parasitic lifestyle rather than being specific to symbiosis [ 33 ] .
Identification of native parasitic PP5
Root-knot nematode species, including Meloidogyne incognita , are the most important of the plant parasitic nematodes, infecting almost all cultivated plants, and are responsible for billions of dollars in crop losses annually [ 1 2 ] . They are obligatory sedentary endoparasites with a 1- to 2-month life cycle.
Greed is almost as good a parasitic strategy as fear.