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Soil Testing
and Plant Diagnostic Services

Plant Diagnostic Clinic

Plant Nematology Laboratory

Soil and Plant Testing Laboratory

MU affiliations

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Missouri Botanical Gardens

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Plant Nematology Laboratory
573-884-9118

Preparation

A lab worker screens the soil.

 

Water is measured to determine the volume of soil by water displacement.

Soil and water are stirred before separation in the elutriator.

Extraction

Updated 3/29/05

About the lab

• Directions to the laboratory
• Plant-parasitic nematodes reported in Missouri
• Sampling for plant-parasitic nematodes
• Testing in the lab

Soybean cyst nematode

• Egg count recommendations
• HG type "race" test
• Why sample: results of the latest study

Submitting samples

• Instructions
• MS Word document form
• PDF form
• RTF form

Related pages

• G4259, Cotton Nematodes in Missouri: Your Hidden Enemies
• G4261, Cotton Disease and Nematode Management
• G4450, Soybean Cyst Nematode: Diagnosis and Management
• G6204, Managing Nematodes in Gardens
• MX858, Pine Wilt Nematode: A Fatal Disease of Exotic Pines in the Midwest, PDF

Contact

• Plant Nematology Laboratory
  23 Mumford Hall
  Columbia, Mo. 65211
• Phone
  573-884-9118
• Fax
  573-882-0588
• E-mail
  heinzr@missouri.edu