Table 2.

Response of Nacobbus spp. to the interaction with different biological control agents in in vivo experiments.

Biocontrol agent (BCA)	Nacobbus spp. and origin	Conditions tested	Response to BCA-nematode interaction	Reference
Bacteria
Pseudomonas protegens CHA0	N. celatus*; Argentina: Buenos Aires	Tomato cv. Platense, cell suspensions	↓ Galls, egg masses, nematode reproduction No effect on shoot/root weight/length	Lax et al. (2013b)
Entomopathogenic nematodes/symbiotic bacteria
Steinernema rarum ACAB, Heterorhabditis bacteriophora RACA	N. celatus; Argentina: Córdoba	Tomato cv. Platense, IJ application	No effect on galls and egg masses ↓ Nematode reproduction	Caccia et al. (2013)
S. rarum/Xenorhabdus szentirmaii	N. celatus; Argentina	Tomato cv. Platense, IJ and SB application	↓ Galls, nematode reproduction	Lax et al. (2013c)
H. bacteriophora CBA/Photorhabdus luminescens Steinernema sp./Xenorhabdus sp. S. rarum RACA/X. szentirmaii	N. celatus; Argentina: Córdoba and Tucumán	Tomato cv. Platense, IJ application	No effect on galls, egg masses or nematode reproduction ↑ Biomass only with H. bacteriophora CBA-Córdoba	Caccia et al. (2018)
		Tomato cv. Platense, SB suspensions and cell-free supernatants	↑ Biomass with BS suspension of Xenorhabdus sp.-Tucumán ↓ Biomass with supernatant of P. luminescens-Tucumán Supernatants of Xenorhabdus sp. and P. luminescens: most effective in ↓ galls, egg masses and nematode reproduction
Mycorrhizal fungi
Glomus sp.	N. aberrans s.l.; Mexico	Tomato	↓ Galls	Gardezi et al. (1995)
Rhizoglomus intraradices	N. celatus; Argentina: Buenos Aires	Tomato cv. Platense	↓ Root gall index ↓ Nematode reproduction No consistent effect on biomass ↑ Mycorrhizal colonization	Lax et al. (2011b)
R. intraradices	N. celatus; Argentina: Córdoba	Tomato cv. Platense	↓ Galls, nematode reproduction ↑ Shoot and root dry weight ↑ Mycorrhizal colonization	Marro et al. (2014)
R. intraradices, Funneliformis mosseae	N. celatus; Argentina: Córdoba and Tucumán	Tomato cv. Platense, pepper cv. California wonder	↓ Galls, nematode reproduction ↑ Shoot and root dry weight	Marro (2018)
R. intraradices, F. mosseae	N. celatus; Argentina: Tucumán	Tomato cv. Platense	↓ Nematode root invasion	Marro et al. (2018)
R. intraradices (B1, A2), F. mosseae	N. aberrans s.l.; Argentina	Pepper cv. Paco f1	↑ Mycorrhizal colonization ↓ Nematode reproduction ↓ Contents of chlorophyll, carotenoids and soluble proteins	Bernardo et al. (2020)
Nematophagous fungi
Purpureocillium lilacinum	N. aberrans s.l.; Argentina	Tomato cv. Platense	↓ Galls, nematode reproduction ↑ Egg masses parasitism	Mareggiani et al. (1985)
P. lilacinum	N. aberrans s.l.	Tomato cv. Jefferson	LD50: J2 mortality in soil	Eguiguren-Carrión (1995)
P. lilacinum (LPSC# 876)	N. aberrans s.l.; Argentina: Buenos Aires	Tomato cv. Platense	No consistent results	Gortari and Hours (2016)
P. lilacinum (SR7, SR14, SR38)	N. celatus; Argentina: Córdoba	Tomato cv. Platense	↓ Egg masses ↑ Plant growth	Sosa et al. (2021a)
Pochonia chlamydosporia (MHCH, SM4, SMB3, SMB3A, SC1, VC10)	N. aberrans s.l.; Mexico: Mexico, Puebla and Zacatecas	Tomato cv. Río Grande; bean cv. Canario Criollo	↑ Egg masses and eggs/g root parasitism ↓ Egg hatching	Flores-Camacho et al. (2007)
P. chlamydosporia (SC1, IZ1)	N. aberrans s.l.; Mexico: Zacatecas	Bean cv. Flor de Mayo Criollo	↓ Galls, nematodes inside roots ↑ Foliage dry and fresh root weight	Franco-Navarro et al. (2012)
P. chlamydosporia (MPc1-MPc5)	N. aberrans s.l.; Mexico: Puebla	Tomato cv. Río Grande	↓ Galls, nematodes inside roots ↑ Leaf dry weight	Pérez-Rodríguez et al. (2007)
Fusarium solani (Fs03), F. oxysporum (Fo07, Fo10), Penicillium janthinellum (Pe11)	N. aberrans s.l.; Mexico	Pepper cv. Yolo Wonder	↓ Galls, J2/g root No consistent effect on growth plant	Cortez-Hernández et al. (2019)

*All N. celatus populations were previously identified as N. aberrans. J2, second-stage juveniles; SB, symbiotic bacteria; IJ, infective juveniles; LD, lethal dose.

Up and down arrow mean increase and decrease, respectively.