Claim · #6496215
Solanum lycopersicum · pest pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Avoid fields where the previous crop was tomato”
- Source
- Saving Seeds of Tomato
- Authors
- Sukprakarn S., Juntakool S., Huang R., Kalb T.
- Year
- 2006
- Publication
- AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, Publication No. 06-652
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Avoiding tomato-after-tomato to limit volunteers and soilborne disease carryover is standard agronomic guidance.”
- horticulturist · plausible
“Continuous tomato cropping increases volunteer and pathogen pressure; rotational avoidance is a recognized horticultural practice.”
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