AgroEco

Claim · #6494280

Heterodera goettingiana · pest pressure · Pisum sativum

pest pressure · effect: harmful

eats GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“Heterodera goettingiana hatches only in diffusates from 4- and 6-week-old pea plants”
Authors
Perry R.N., Moens M., Jones J.T.
Year
2024
Publication
CAB International
Page
260

AI critic verdicts

  • agroecologist · plausible

    “Host-specific root diffusate-stimulated hatching is well-documented for Heterodera spp.; H. goettingiana's specificity to Pisum sativum diffusates is biologically consistent with cyst nematode ecology.”

  • horticulturist · plausible

    “Host-specific hatching stimulation by root diffusates is well-documented in cyst nematodes; age-dependent diffusate activity (4–6 weeks) is biologically consistent with early root exudate profiles.”

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