Claim · #6492210
Virus spp. · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“substantially reduced the incidence of virus diseases”
- Authors
- Altieri M.A., Farrell J.G., Hecht S.B., Liebman M., Magdoff F., Murphy B., Norgaard R.B., Sikor T.O.
- Year
- 1995
- Publication
- CRC Press / Westview Press
- Page
- 158
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Lupine intercropping as a physical barrier reducing aphid-vectored virus spread in potato is well-established; overyielding from legume-cereal/root intercropping is biologically consistent with Andean field systems.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Intercropping as a barrier/dilution effect reducing aphid-vectored potato virus spread is well-documented; lupine intercrop reducing virus incidence in potato is biologically credible.”
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