Claim · #6493075
Amaranthus retroflexus · pest pressure · Zea mays
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“most abundant weeds were yellow foxtail, green foxtail, common lambsquarters, and redroot pigweed”
- Authors
- Andow D.A., Ragsdale D.W., Nyvall R.F.
- Year
- 1997
- Publication
- Westview Press / Routledge
- Page
- 181
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Yellow foxtail (Setaria glauca) is a well-documented competitive weed in US corn systems; source quote directly supports the extracted claim.”
- horticulturist · plausible
“Yellow foxtail (Setaria glauca) is a well-documented, common weed in US corn fields; source quote directly supports the structured severity field.”
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