Claim · #6492809
Gossypium hirsutum · pest pressure · Empoasca spp.
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“most notable success at the time being 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; host-plant resistance breeding against them in South Africa and India is historically credible and the source quote supports the structured interaction.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Empoasca leafhoppers are well-documented cotton pests; host-plant resistance breeding against them in South Africa and India is historically recorded in IPM literature.”
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