For vegetables, intensive cultivation has promoted the development of various diseases, such as occurrence of nematodes, with significant losses of heavily nematode-infested crops. Despite this pathogen’s low natural mobility, constant soil tickler and machinery use, typical vegetable crop production operations, favor this spread. The root-knot nematode (
Meloidogyne spp.) is quite destructive on most vegetables. In Brazil,
M. javanica and
M. arenaria are the most important pathogens on these crops (
Pinheiro et al., 2018).