“…The species, Pratylenchus brachyurus (Tylenchida: Pratylenchidae) is a polyphagous phytonematoid and is associated mainly with plants of the family Poaceae (grasses) such as sugar cane, corn, rice, sorghum and brachiaria. However, they also parasitize other plants such as cotton and soybean (Rios et al, 2016;Rack et al, 2013;Barbosa et al, 2013;Neves, 2013;Machado et al, 2012) and the control of P. brachyurus nematoide in soybean areas is complex (Silva et al, 2019). Soybean is a widely cultivated crop in several Brazilian regions and is of great economic importance for the country (Costa et al, 2019) and the Central West region, the largest grain producer in Brazil (CONAB, 2017), faced in the last few seasons the occurrence of high-density P. brachyurus in the soybean crop.…”