Claim · #6492888
Sitobion avenae · herbivory · Triticum aestivum
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“directly reduces the supply of assimilates in the developing grain reducing the yield by 14%”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 51
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Sitobion avenae feeding on wheat ears at glume bases intercepting phloem assimilates causing ~14% yield loss is well-documented in UK cereal IPM literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Sitobion avenae is a well-documented grain aphid pest of wheat; feeding at glume bases reducing assimilate supply and ~14% yield loss is biologically consistent with published UK field studies.”
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