Claim · #6495859
Nucleopolyhedrovirus · biocontrol · Malacosoma indicum
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Application and use of NPV reduce the caterpillar damage on tree foliage”
- Source
- Insect-Pest Complex and Integrated Pest Management on Apple in Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Authors
- Hussain B., Buhroo A.A., War A.R., Sheerwani A.
- Year
- 2017
- Publication
- Indian Apple: Production and Value Chain Analysis (Chapter 17)
- Page
- 278
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“NPV against Malacosoma tent caterpillars is biologically reasonable; lepidopteran-specific baculovirus.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Malacosoma NPV is a documented baculovirus pathogen of tent caterpillars; pathogen-host direction correct.”
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