Claim · #6495653
Aphis gossypii · pest pressure · Citrullus lanatus
pest pressure · effect: harmful
vectorOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Transmits papaya ringspot virus and watermelon and cucumber mosaic disease”
- Source
- Hawai'i Landscape Plant Pest Guide: Sucking Insects
- Authors
- Hara A., Niino-DuPonte R.
- Year
- 2015
- Publication
- UH-CTAHR Insect Pests IP-36
- Page
- 2
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“A. gossypii vectors watermelon mosaic virus on cucurbits including watermelon; consistent with source quote.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“WMV (Potyvirus) is non-persistently transmitted by A. gossypii to Citrullus lanatus; standard cucurbit pathology.”
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