Claim · #6494565
Aphididae (family) · pathogen pressure · various herbaceous crops
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“The most important types of insect vectors of plant viruses: (A) aphids”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 742
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Aphids as the foremost insect vector group for plant viruses, predominantly via non-persistent stylet-borne transmission, is well-established consensus across plant pathology and IPM literature.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Aphids are well-established as the primary insect vectors of plant viruses, with non-persistent stylet-borne transmission being the dominant mode; source quote directly supports this.”
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