Claim · #6493007
Mononychellus tanajoa · pest pressure · Manihot esculenta
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“screen cassava plants for resistance to cassava mite Mononychellus tanajoa”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 155
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Mononychellus tanajoa is the well-documented cassava green mite pest affecting leaves/buds; source quote directly supports the structured pest-crop vulnerability fields.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Mononychellus tanajoa is a well-documented tetranychid mite pest of cassava foliage/buds; resistance screening via damage scales is standard IPM practice consistent with the source quote.”
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