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Physiologist Edward Masler observes as technician Carol Robinson treats soybean plants with soybean cyst nematode eggs. The eggs hatch and juvenile nematodes then enter the soybean roots where they mature and reproduce. Large numbers of new nematodes are harvested and used for gene analysis.