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One of the most significant developments in plant pathology and plant nematology during the last three decades has been the demonstration of many complex associations between nematodes and fungi (Powell, 1963, Powell, 1971a, Powell, 1971b, Powell, 1979), bacteria (Pitcher, 1961, Pitcher, 1963, Pitcher, 1965), and viruses (Raski and Hewitt, 1963; Harrison, 1964; Weischer, 1968; Taylor, 1972) in causing plant diseases. Experiments conducted under carefully controlled conditions conclusively proved that plant-parasitic nematodes greatly increase the development of plant diseases caused by fungi and bacteria. Synergistic relationships between plant pathogenic bacteria and nematodes in increasing the severity of plant diseases have been demonstrated (Pitcher, 1963, Pitcher, 1965; Pitcher and Crosse, 1958). Plant-parasitic nematodes as primary pathogens favour the establishment of secondary pathogens like bacteria which otherwise cannot infect the plant under normal conditions. Primary pathogens induce changes in a host, leading to synergistic association for disease development, whereas secondary pathogens participate actively and alter the course of pathogenesis. Secondary invaders, however, merely colonize dead cells induced by the primary pathogens (Powell, 1979; Mayol and Bergeson, 1969). It is now established that two or possibly more pathogens, rather than only one, are required to cause some diseases.
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Sitaramaiah, K., Pathak, K.N. (1993). Nematode bacterial disease interactions. In: Khan, M.W. (eds) Nematode Interactions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1488-2_11
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