Claim · #6492135
Striga spp. · pest pressure · Zea mays
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“semiarid Suba district plagued by both stemborers and striga”
- Source
- Agroecosystems Analysis
- Authors
- Rickerl D., Francis C., Gliessman S.R., Nicholls C.I., Altieri M.A., Janke R.R., Dobbs T.L., Flora C.B., Schumacher T.E., Caldwell R.M., Salomonsson L., Lieblein G., Helenius J., Kirschenmann F.
- Year
- 2004
- Publication
- Agronomy Monograph No. 43, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America
- Page
- 56
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Striga spp. parasitizing maize roots in semiarid Kenya is well-documented; Desmodium uncinatum suppressing Striga ~40-fold in push-pull systems is supported by published ICIPE research.”
- horticulturist · plausible
“Striga parasitizes maize roots in semiarid Africa; Desmodium uncinatum suppressing Striga ~40-fold via allelopathy and root exudates is well-documented in push-pull literature.”
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