“…Several authors have investigated the hatching of the cereal cyst nematode H. avenae (Banyer & Fisher, 1971a, b;Rivoal, 1978Rivoal, , 1979Williams & Beane, 1979;Valdeolivas & Romero, 1986;Rao & Dhawan, 1988;Zancada & Sanchez, 1988) but the life cycle and hatching behaviour of H. latipons has not been investigated thorand the one used to separate the area into four agroecological zones: A, with an average annual rainfall above 350 mm (wheat dominated rotations); B, 250-350 mm (wheat and barley dominated rotations); C, 200-250 mm (barley monoculture and rotations); and D, below 200 mm (barley-fallow systems) (Ryan et al, 1997).…”