Claim · #6492824
Metarhizium anisopliae · biocontrol · Cleonus punctiventris
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“mass produce the fungus Metarhizium anisopliae for use in the field against the sugar beet curculio”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 3
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Metchnikoff's 1884 work mass-culturing Metarhizium anisopliae against Cleonus punctiventris is well-documented historical biocontrol fact; subject/object roles and mechanism are correctly assigned.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Metarhizium anisopliae is a well-documented entomopathogenic fungus; Metchnikoff's 1884 work on it against Cleonus punctiventris is historically established.”
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