Claim · #6493659
Plutella xylostella · herbivory · Brassica (genus)
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“significant resistance in field populations has been reported only for the diamondback moth”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P., Rice M.E.
- Year
- 2009
- Publication
- Pearson Prentice Hall
- Page
- 572
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Plutella xylostella is the textbook case of field-evolved Bt resistance; source quote and structured fields align with well-documented global resistance records.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Plutella xylostella is the canonical example of field-evolved Bt resistance; source quote and extracted claim align with well-documented global resistance records.”
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