Claim · #6494289
Ditylenchus dipsaci · pest pressure · Allium cepa
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Onions of normal weight but infected with a few stem nematodes (D. dipsaci) at harvest will be lost in storage”
- Authors
- Perry R.N., Moens M., Jones J.T.
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- CAB International
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Ditylenchus dipsaci is a well-documented endoparasitic nematode of Allium cepa; post-harvest storage losses from latent infections are consistent with established plant-parasitic nematology literature.”
- horticulturist · plausible
“Ditylenchus dipsaci is a well-documented pest of Allium cepa; post-harvest storage loss from low-level infection is biologically consistent with the source quote.”
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