Chickpea cultivar responses (tolerance & resistance) to P. thornei in field trials

This dataset reports changes in population densities of the root-lesion nematode, Pratylenchus thornei following a set-up phase in which differential populations of P. thornei were established in a factorial design by growing two wheat cultivars: one moderately resistant (cv. QT8343) and the other susceptible (cv. Kennedy). In the following season the following treatments were included: nine chickpea cultivars, one susceptible (S) and one moderately resistant (MR) wheat cultivar in 2015; three wheat culitvars in 2016; a fallow treatment in the first chickpea experiment (2015 only). Soil samples were taken from every plot before planting and after harvest in Year 2 to determine P. thornei populations at 0–30 cm soil depth by the DNA-test offered by PREDICTA B and by the Whitehead tray extraction method and enumeration under a microscope at three soil depth intervals to 90 cm in which P. thornei, Merlinius brevidens and free living nematode population densities were also assessed.