AgroEco

Claim · #6494771

Polygonum hydropiper · facilitation · Aphididae (family)

facilitation · effect: beneficial

interactsWith GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“polygodial, extracted from the water-pepper Polygonum hydropiper”
Authors
Dent D.
Year
2000
Publication
CABI Publishing

AI critic verdicts

  • agroecologist · plausible

    “Polygodial from Polygonum hydropiper as an aphid antifeedant reducing BYDV transmission on barley is documented (Pickett, Powell et al.) and reflects valid push-pull / semiochemical agroecology.”

  • plant-pathologist · plausible

    “Reduced aphid feeding/probing via polygodial antifeedant logically reduces non-persistent and persistent aphid-vectored virus acquisition/transmission of BYDV, consistent with vector-feeding/transmission literature.”

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