Claim · #6492372
Sitobion avenae · pest pressure · Triticum aestivum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“reducing the percentage flour extraction, increasing the colour, nicotinic acid and thiamine content”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 53
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Sitobion avenae is a well-documented grain aphid pest of wheat; phloem feeding during grain fill plausibly degrades grain quality metrics including flour extraction rate.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Sitobion avenae is a well-documented grain aphid pest of wheat; source quote supports quality impacts on flour extraction and nutritional composition during grain fill.”
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