Abstract:The effects of common inorganic compounds on survival, chemotaxis and hatching of Meloidogyne incognita juveniles (J2) were assessed using in vitro bioassays. The results revealed that the dissimilar inorganic compounds significantly influenced the behavior of J2 at different concentrations. With the increase in the concentration of inorganic compounds, the mortality of J2 increased significantly, wherein NH4HCO3, Na2SO4, CuCl2·2H2O, CuSO4·5H2O and FeCl3·6H2O were the more effective and could inhibit J2 survival at lower concentration such as 0.03, 0.03, 0.0003, 0.0004 and 0.0007 mol/L, respectively. Inorganic compounds inhibited eggs hatching in the oocyst under LC50 but containing Cu2+ compounds. All compounds contained Ca2+ were attractive, meanwhile, those compounds contained NH4HCO3 and NH4NO3 were repellent to J2 of M.incognita. All compounds had no inhibitory effect to tomato seed germination except for roots elongation in the latter stage but NH4HCO3 at LC90. Pot experiment indicated that CuSO4·5H2O was the most effective for controlling M.incognita as up to 70.8% at LC50 compared with control.