Claim · #6492976
Cicadellidae (family) · pest pressure · Gossypium spp.
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“jassid resistant cottons... gross morphological features of the host plant”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 138
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Jassid resistance in cotton via leaf pubescence (hairy leaf surface) is a well-established trichome-mediated morphological resistance mechanism documented in IPM and cotton breeding literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Jassid resistance in cotton via leaf pubescence (trichome density) is well-established entomology; hairy-leaf cotton conferring resistance to Cicadellidae is textbook IPM knowledge.”
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