Diversity of Nematode Microbial Antagonists from Algeria Shows Occurrence of Nematotoxic spp.

Fungi and bacteria associated to phytoparasitic nematodes and spp. in Algeria were identified and characterized. spp.

Fusarium algeriense, sp. nov., a novel toxigenic crown rot pathogen of durum wheat from Algeria is nested in the Fusarium burgessii species complex.

A novel crown rot pathogen of wheat discovered during pathogen surveys in Algeria in 2014 and 2015 is formally described as Fusarium algeriense. Multilocus molecular phylogenetic data resolved the eight isolates of this pathogen as a genealogically exclusive species lineage in the F. burgessii species complex.