Claim · #6492907
Mononychellus tanajoa · pest pressure · Manihot esculenta
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“damaging effects of drought on yield were compounded by mite feeding”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 62
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Mononychellus tanajoa is a well-documented phytophagous mite pest of cassava; source quote directly supports drought-compounded yield loss mechanism.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Mononychellus tanajoa is a well-documented tetranychid mite pest of cassava; drought-stress compounding mite feeding damage on yield is biologically consistent and supported by the source quote.”
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