FIGURE 5.

Cartoon representing a theoretical model of the interactions between plant root exudates (arrows) and the cuticle of nematodes: blue arrow represents exudates that recruit Pasteuria endospores to the blue nematodes by a reduction in cuticular aging, they also decruit endospore adhesion to the green nematodes by increased cuticular aging; similarly, the green arrow represents exudates that decrease cuticula r aging to the green nematodes thereby recruiting green endospore attachment and increase cuticular aging in the blue nematodes and decruit endospore adhesion; exudates that decruit endospore adhesion maintain those spores in the Pasteuria spore bank to control nematodes to which both spores types can attach and can infect both host plants represented by the blue/green stripped nematodes producing an arms in the effects of root exudates (not to scale).