. 2026 Apr 29;17:1807765. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2026.1807765

Table 1.

Final root-knot (Meloidogyne species) nematodes population densities per 250 g of soil collected from potato monoculture (P–P), sweet stem sorghum-potato (SSS–P), Cucumis africanus-potato (C–P) and potato(Velum)-potato (PV–P) cropping sequences and tuber yield recorded at the Agricultural Research Council-Vegetable, Industrial and Medicinal Plants (ARC-VIMP) and University of Limpopo.

Cropping sequence	ARC-VIMP		University of Limpopo
Cropping sequence	Final nematodes	Tuber yield (g/plant)	Final nematodes	Tuber yield (g/plant)
P–P	910.00^a ± 54.10	270.42^b ± 19.62	2646.67^a ± 186.95	190.26^b ± 12.30
SSS–P	713.33^a ± 69.02	293.09^ab ± 17.63	1390.00^ab ± 94.06	198.11^b ± 11.67
C–P	450.00^ab ± 21.13	313.09^a ± 10.59	550.00^b ± 61.05	232.63^a ± 13.80
PV–P	173.33^b ± 32.93	321.81^a ± 16.93	643.33^b ± 61.84	238.22^a ± 16.41

Means ± standard errors sharing the same lowercase letter within cropping sequences (column) were not significantly different (p ≤ 0.05) within a sequence according to Nemenyi’s post-hoc test and Fischer’s Least Significant Difference test for soil nematode population density and tuber yield mass, respectively.