Claim · #6496069
Cicer arietinum · pest pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“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
“Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is a documented Helicoverpa armigera host; alternate-host pressure on tomato is biologically reasonable.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Cicer arietinum is a major Helicoverpa armigera host; alternate-host dynamics support pest pressure on adjacent tomato.”
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