Claim · #6492071
Lumbricus terrestris · biocontrol · Venturia inaequalis
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“apple scab fungus can be partly controlled when worms eat the leaves and incorporate the residues”
- Authors
- Magdoff F., Van Es H.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE), National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Page
- 56
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Lumbricus terrestris consuming and burying Venturia inaequalis-infected leaf litter to reduce surface inoculum is a documented IPM mechanism; source quote supports the structured mechanism and effect direction.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Venturia inaequalis overwinters in leaf litter; earthworm consumption and burial of infected leaves reducing surface inoculum is well-documented and biologically coherent.”
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