Claim · #6492316
Mayetiola destructor · pest pressure · Triticum aestivum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“resistance to Hessian fly in wheat cultivars”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 4
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Mayetiola destructor (Hessian fly) is a well-documented major pest of Triticum aestivum, and R.H. Painter's foundational resistance-breeding work is historically established.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Mayetiola destructor (Hessian fly) is a well-documented dipteran pest of Triticum aestivum; R.H. Painter's foundational resistance-breeding work is historically established in entomology literature.”
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