Claim · #6496076
Bemisia tabaci · pest pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
vectorOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“yellow sticky traps @ 12/ha to monitor the whitefly vectors of the disease”
- 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
“Bemisia tabaci is the established whitefly vector of tomato leaf curl begomoviruses; classification correct.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“B. tabaci vectors begomoviruses including ToLCV; vectorOf relationship and warm-dry seasonality accurate.”
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