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The authors attributed the greater 2015 damage to dry conditions favorable to WCR larval development and movement.
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e0“The 2015 was extremely dry and more suitable for WCR larval development and movement in the soil, compared to 2016. Thus, more severe damages appeared on artificially infested plants (D plants)”
Title
Maize Tolerance To Natural And Artificial Infestation With Diabrotica Virgifera Virgifera Eggs
Snežana T. Tanasković; Gvozdenac, Sonja M.; Popović, Branka D.; et al. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2017. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1133088
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- Intervention effect In 2015 artificially infested maize had more severe root injury than controls.
- Intervention effect In 2015, 25 controls and four artificially infested plants had healthy roots.
- Intervention effect In 2016, root injuries from WCR larvae did not differ significantly between artificially infested and control plants.
- Association Root mass correlated strongly with root injury level.
- Intervention effect Root mass did not differ significantly between artificially infested and controls in either year.