Claim · model-written summary
The olive fruit fly appeared to prefer spherical, large and hard fruit over elongate, small and soft fruit.
- Taxon
- olive
Olea europaeat0 - Organ / stage
- fruite0
- Interactor
- B . oleae
Bactrocera oleaee0pest - Outcome
- preferred by B . oleaee0
- Direction
- preferrede0
- Comparator
- fruit that are elongate, small, and softe0
Verbatim
e0“Spherical, large, and hard fruit seemed to be preferred by B . oleae over fruit that are elongate, small, and soft”
t0“infestation of olive cultivars”
Title
Roberto Rizzo; Virgilio Caleca; Alberto Lombardo Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 2012. doi:10.1111/j.1570-7458.2012.01311.x
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Association Year, sampling date, cultivar and fruit color significantly associated with infestation in the full model.
- Association Fruit volume, elongation and hardness did not significantly associate with infestation when cultivar was included.
- Association Without cultivar, fruit volume, elongation and hardness were significantly associated with infestation.