Fuente: WIPO "tomato" The present disclosure provides a substance for promoting the hatching of cyst nematodes (hatching-promoting substance). The hatching-promoting substance may be advantageously used, for example, to prevent damage to crops caused by cyst nematodes, by inducing hatching of cyst nematodes in soil in the absence of host plants, thereby causing the hatched nematodes to die from starvation.