Claim · #6492808
Triticum aestivum · pest pressure · Mayetiola destructor
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor) resistant wheat cultivar, Underhill, in the US”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 2
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Mayetiola destructor is a well-known gall midge pest of wheat; larval feeding as mechanism is biologically correct, and Hessian fly resistance in wheat (including Underhill cultivar history) is well-documented in IPM literature.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Mayetiola destructor is a well-documented gall midge pest of Triticum aestivum; Hessian fly-resistant cultivar 'Underhill' and Painter's resistance research are historically corroborated facts.”
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