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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