Claim · #6496067
Gossypium spp. · pest pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Availability of alternate host plants such as cotton, pigeon pea, chickpea”
- Source
- How to Grow Tomato
- Authors
- AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, SRTT Project
- Publication
- AVRDC SRTT Project Extension Leaflet (Ranchi, Jharkhand)
- Page
- 2
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Cotton is a well-documented alternate host for Helicoverpa armigera, increasing pest pressure on adjacent tomato; source supports.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Helicoverpa armigera is highly polyphagous with cotton as a primary host; alternate-host pressure on tomato is well-established.”
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