The objective of the present work was to evaluate the influence of root leachates from cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) cultivar Epace 10 inoculated with Glomus etunicatum and/or Bradyrhizobium sp. on the hatching of Meloidogyne incognita, M. javanica and M. mayaguensis juveniles. Soil was infested at planting with 200 spores of the fungus and/or 1 ml of 10(8) UFC/ml suspension of Bradyrhizobium sp. stirps NFB 700 and 652. Non infested soil was used as the control. Plants were allowed to grow under greenhouse conditions for 57 days after soil infestation for leachates collection. Hatch evaluations were done at 0, 24, 48 and 144 h after eggs were immersed in water or leachings of the inoculated and non inoculated 57-day old plants. The experimental design was completely randomized in a 3'5'4 (nematode ' leachate ' exposure time) factorial arrangement with four replicates. Meloidogyne javanica presented the highest (P 0.05) percentage of hatching in leachates of plants inoculated with G. etunicatum and Bradyrhizobium sp. simultaneously. Considering the time effect on hatch, M. javanica did not differ from M. mayaguensis but both of them differed (P< 0.05) from M. incognita after 144 hours. Juvenile hatching versus time, in response to each leachate, fit (P< 0.01) the quadractic model.
