Claim · #6494957
Bemisia tabaci · pest pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“tobacco whitefly (Bemisia tabaci)”
- Authors
- Bhagyasree S.N., Anokhe Archana, Shashank P.R., Patel C.H.
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- Insect Predators in Pest Management (CRC Press / Taylor & Francis)
- Page
- 271
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Bemisia tabaci (silverleaf/tobacco whitefly) is a major direct-feeding and virus-vectoring pest of Solanum lycopersicum in Mediterranean and tropical production systems.”
- entomologist · plausible
“B. tabaci is one of the most economically damaging hemipteran pests of tomato globally, vectoring TYLCV and other begomoviruses; severity rating is appropriate.”
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