Claim · #6493482
Myzus persicae · pest pressure · Nicotiana tabacum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“some tobacco resistant to green peach aphid”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P., Rice M.E.
- Year
- 2009
- Publication
- Pearson Prentice Hall
- Page
- 459
AI critic verdicts
- entomologist · plausible
“Myzus persicae feeding on Nicotiana tabacum foliage is well-documented; age-dependent resistance in tobacco is biologically credible and consistent with known aphid-plant interactions.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Myzus persicae is a well-documented tobacco pest; host resistance varying with plant age is biologically consistent, though the source quote only mentions resistance without specifying age-dependence.”
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