If you're questioning whether nematodes in your soil will damage or benefit your plants and lawn, the answer is a resounding: "It depends." Both things can be true. Most nematodes are actually ...

Have you ever pulled up vegetable plants such as tomatoes or peppers at the end of the growing season and noticed bumps along the underground portion of the stem or on the roots? Did you wonder what ...

In natural ecosystems, bacterial communities play an important role in nutrient cycling, primary production and decomposition 1. Bacteria are also heavily consumed by bacterivorous nematodes that are ...

A massive study of expressed-sequence tags from both free-living and parasitic nematodes identifies tens of thousands of genes not present in Caenorhabditis elegans. Half of these are unique to ...