Claim · #6492276
Gliricidia sepium · pest pressure · Vigna unguiculata
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“leaf chlorosis was observed in maize and cowpea seedlings mulched with Gliricidia prunings”
- Authors
- Buck L.E., Lassoie J.P., Fernandes E.C.M.
- Year
- 1999
- Publication
- CRC Press / Lewis Publishers
AI critic verdicts
- horticulturist · plausible
“Gliricidia sepium is documented to contain phytotoxic allelochemicals; leachate-induced chlorosis in cowpea seedlings under mulch is biologically consistent and supported by the source quote.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Gliricidia sepium prunings are documented to contain allelopathic compounds; phytotoxic leachate causing chlorosis in cowpea seedlings is biologically consistent with known allelopathic mulch effects.”
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