Claim · #6496091
Bemisia tabaci · pest pressure · Abelmoschus esculentus
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“control the whitefly vectors.”
- Source
- How to Grow Okra
- Authors
- AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center
- Publication
- AVRDC SRTT Project Extension Bulletin
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Bemisia tabaci is the established whitefly vector of YVMV begomovirus in okra.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Bemisia tabaci correctly identified as YVMV vector; chemical-control framing is regional IPM convention.”
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