Claim · #6495174
Striga hermonthica · pest pressure · Zea mays
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Striga hermonthica causes major maize yield losses in sub-Saharan Africa”
- Authors
- Bezner Kerr R., Madsen S., Stuber M., Liebert J., Enloe S., Borghino N., Parros P., Mutyambai D., Prudhon M., Wezel A.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Global Food Security
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Striga hermonthica as a major parasitic weed of maize in SSA is uncontroversial (Parker 2009, Spallek 2013).”
- horticulturist · plausible
“Striga's haustorial parasitism causing major cereal yield loss is standard cereal-crop pest knowledge.”
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