Claim · #6493070
Nosema pyrausta · pathogen pressure · Macrocentrus grandii
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“suffered reduced pupal viability and adult longevity when it ingested N. pyrausta spores”
- Authors
- Andow D.A., Ragsdale D.W., Nyvall R.F.
- Year
- 1997
- Publication
- Westview Press / Routledge
- Page
- 200
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Nosema pyrausta is a well-documented microsporidian pathogen of European corn borer that is known to hyperparasitize or negatively affect Macrocentrus grandii via spore ingestion within infected hosts; mechanism and effect direction are biologically consistent.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Nosema pyrausta is a known microsporidian pathogen of European corn borer that can hyperparasitically harm Macrocentrus grandii via spore ingestion — well-documented in classical biocontrol literature.”
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