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The 2007 house foreclosure crisis has designed a BIM-22493 site renewed interest in urban agriculture as the newly accumulated vacant land is becoming viewed as for escalating access to fresh make in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Liu1, G.A. Swire-Clark1, W.C. Bridges2, A.G. Abbott3, C. E. Wells and W.V. Baird4.D Virginia soybean production fields was carried out from 2010-2012 to identify prevalent species and races of plant-parasitic nematodes. An area-frame probability sampling design and style was employed for field choice in order to stay away from bias. About 30 % in the one hundred fields sampled in North Carolina were infested with detectable levels of Heterodera glycines. Only twenty from the populations might be adequately classified as to race or HG kind. Some populations could not be enhanced to adequate levels for classification. Of classified populations twelve had been race two or HG form 1.2.5.7. The peanut root-knot nematode was identified in three fields using PCR and perineal patterns. These information show that breeding for resistance to race two or HG variety 1.2.5.7 ought to be prioritized in breeding applications. AN ASSESSMENT OF SOIL Health AND PRODUCTIVITY IN Community AND Marketplace GARDENS. Reeves, Jennifer1, Z. Cheng2, M.T. Kleinhenz3 and P.S. Grewal2. 1Environmental Science Graduate System; 2Entomology Dept.; and 3Horticulture and Crop Science Dept., The Ohio State University, OARDC, Wooster, OH 44691. The 2007 home foreclosure crisis has produced a renewed interest in urban agriculture as the newly accumulated vacant land is getting deemed for rising access to fresh make in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Nevertheless, issues concerning the high-quality of urban soil and its suitability for food production arise in the physical and chemical disturbances associated with anthropogenic activity in the urban environment. This study investigated urban soil wellness via nematode neighborhood analysis and crop productivity by way of tomato fruit yield in neighborhood and industry gardens inside the city of Cleveland, Ohio, USA. We hypothesized that the market gardens would have greater soil overall health and crop productivity than the neighborhood gardens due to the fact market gardens are driven by profit motives to produce excellent crops. Final results indicate that, although the structure and enrichment with the nematode communities have been similar involving garden varieties, the industry gardens had higher numbers of total nematodes (75.four four.9 Vs 47.6 5.0, p=0.000), such as bacterivores (47.six 3.9 Vs 28.3 three.four, p=0.001), omnivores (four.0 0.6 Vs 1.7 0.three, p=0.005), and plant parasitic nematodes (16.8 1.6 Vs 11.three 1.7, p=0.026) than the community gardens, indicating greater ecosystem productivity. Similarly, the NH4 (three.3 0.two Vs two.two 0.3, p=0.002), NO3 (37.eight 3.3 Vs 20.six two.8, p=0.000), Dissolved Organic Nitrogen (24.eight two.two Vs 15.6 1.7, p=0.003) and Microbial Biomass Nitrogen (100.7 two.2 Vs 69.three 6.four, p=0.004) measurements had been higher within the market place gardens than inside the neighborhood gardens. However, there was no difference of harvest (neither kg/m2 nor kg/plant) amongst the market place and neighborhood gardens.