Research work
- Early detection of nematode infestation
- Nematode eradication and control (including biotic approaches)
- Studying nematode biology (e.g. virulence, survival)
- Nematode genomic studies
- Nematodes as vectors for transmission of plant viruses
- Development of nematode diagnostics
- Modelling the potential distribution of nematodes (including climate change scenarios)
- Modelling of development cycle of nematodes
Expert work
- Nematode diagnostics: detection and identification (morphological, molecular and biochemical species identification)
- Advice on nematode control measures
- Systematic surveillance of quarantine species: potato cyst nematodes Globodera rostochiensis and G. pallida, pine cyst nematodes Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, and root-knot nematodes Meloidogyne chitwoodi, M. fallax
- Control of other quarantine and economically harmful species (M. enterolobii, M. graminicola, Ditylenchus dipsaci, D. destructor, Xiphinema americanum, X. index, Aphelenchoides besseyi, etc.)