Claim · #6492309
Empoasca spp. · pest pressure · Gossypium hirsutum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“cotton resistant to Empoasca bred in South Africa”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 4
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Empoasca leafhoppers are well-documented cotton pests in Africa and Asia; breeding for resistance is historically attested and the source quote directly supports the structured fields.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Empoasca leafhoppers are well-documented pests of Gossypium hirsutum, and resistance breeding against them in South Africa and India is historically recorded in IPM literature.”
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