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The effect of soil texture was tested by addition of silicon dioxide sand or fine soil particles (diameter http://www.selleckchem.com/products/byl719.html were added at the following rates (wet weight): 10%, 30%, 50%, and 70%. The tubes were incubated at 15?��C for 3 weeks before the soil was assayed. The experiments of soil temperature and water content effects were carried out three times each, and the experiment on soil texture was repeated once. SCN J2 were extracted from the 40?g subsample of soil by sucrose flotation and centrifugation (Chen & Liu, 2005). All extracted nematodes were observed at �� 100 magnification with an inverted microscope. J2 filled with hyphae or with conidia characteristic of H. minnesotensis on their cuticle were counted as parasitized. The percentage of J2 that were parasitized was calculated. Fungal DNA was extracted from 0.5?g of the 10?g subsample of soil from each http://www.selleckchem.com/products/SB-431542.html tube. The soil sample was treated with a mini-bead beater (Biospec Products, Bartlesville, OK) at 4200?r.p.m. for 90?s to break open cells. The DNA was extracted with the MoBio UltraClean soil DNA isolation kit (MoBio Laboratories, Solana Beach, CA) following the manufacturer's protocols. Soil DNA was diluted 10-fold and subjected to real-time PCR as described previously (Xiang et al., 2010). The DNA was stored at ?20?��C if it could not be assayed immediately. Data were subjected to anova, and means were compared with Fisher's protected least significant difference at ��=0.05. Data were subjected to regression analysis. spss software (version 15.0) was used. An arcsine transformation was applied to the percentage parasitism data before statistical analysis. The quantity of H. http://www.selleck.cn/products/ipi-145-ink1197.html minnesotensis DNA in soil as determined by real-time PCR was highest at 5 and 10?��C, sharply declined between 10 and 15?��C, gradually declined between 15 and 20?��C, and did not change from 20 to 30?��C (Fig. 1). Hirsutella minnesotensis was not detected by real-time PCR in soil tubes that were not inoculated with the fungus (data not shown). Soil temperature also significantly affected the activity of H. minnesotensis, as indicated by the percentage of SCN J2 that were parasitized. Although the greatest quantity of DNA was detected at 5 and 10?��C, the highest percentage of J2 parasitized by H. minnesotensis was at 10 and 15?��C; parasitism levels were very low at higher or lower temperatures (Fig. 1). In this test and in all other tests in this paper, all parasitized J2 appeared to be parasitized by H. minnesotensis, based on the morphology of the spores adhering to the J2 cuticle. The quantity of H. minnesotensis DNA was highest at 6% soil water content and declined with increasing soil water content (Fig. 2).