Claim · #6494599
Frankliniella occidentalis · pathogen pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis)... acquired... by thrips larvae but not by adult thrips”
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- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
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AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Larval acquisition with persistent propagative transmission of TSWV by F. occidentalis is well-established; source quote directly supports the mechanism field.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Larval acquisition of TSWV (a tospovirus) by Frankliniella occidentalis with persistent propagative transmission into adulthood is textbook-established vector biology, consistent with source quote.”
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