Claim · #6492311
Nephotettix virescens · pest pressure · Oryza sativa
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“the green leaf hopper (Nephotettix virescens)”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 5
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Nephotettix virescens is a well-documented rice pest and vector of tungro virus; IR36's resistance to GLH is established in IRRI literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Nephotettix virescens is a well-documented rice pest and green leafhopper; IR36's resistance to it is established in rice breeding literature.”
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