Abstract
Females of the soybean cyst nematode and soil samples collected from several soybean-growing areas of Tennessee [USA] in July 1981 were examined for fungal pathogens with potential as biological control agents of the nematode. Females infected with Nematophthora gynophila were isolated at 3 sites from 5 samples of roots, and resting spores of the fungus were found at 5 sites in 9 soil samples, including 2 sites where the nematode is declining. Females infected with Catenaria auxiliaris and resting spores of Verticillium chlamydosporium were also found. These fungi control populations of cereal cyst nematode in England.