The present study had for objective to study the reaction of mume Clones 05, 10 and 15 (Prunus mume Sieb. et Zucc.) and 'Okinawa', 'Aurora-1' and 'Dourado-1' peach tree cultivars [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch] to Meloidogyne incognita (Kofoid and White) Chitwood, in greenhouse conditions. The plants were maintained in ceramic boxes containing a soil-sand mixture (1:1, v/v), previously autoclaved at 121ºC and 1 kgf.cm-2 for 2 hours. On the sixtieth day after planting, each plant was inoculated with 2,000 eggs in the second stage juvenile of Meloidogyne incognita. The experiment was carried out in randomized design with 6 treatments (genotypes) and 9 repetitions. After 116 days from inoculation, plants were harvested for radicular system evaluation. It was possible to verify that galls number for radicular system, eggs and juvenile number in a 10 g sample, eggs and juvenile number for the whole radicular system were null or practically null in all clones and cultivars studied, so that respective reproduction factors (RF) were all lower than 1. It was verified that mume Clones 05, 10 and 15, such as 'Okinawa', 'Aurora-1' and 'Dourado-1' peach tree cultivars are resistant to Meloidogyne incognita.
Prunus mume (Sieb. et Zucc.); Prunus persica (L.); Batsch; stone fruits; rootstock; root-knot nematode
