Claim · model-written summary
Silica dioxide caused 46.7% pest mortality initially.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse1 - Treatment
- Silica dioxidee0
- Interactor
- Sitophilus zeamais
Sitophilus zeamaise2pest - Outcome
- mortalitye0
- Direction
- causede0
- Value
- 46.7e0
- Qualifier
- initiale0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Silica dioxide caused 46.7, 38.3 and 37.5% of mortality, respectively, in the initial (soon after the treatment with the powders or oils) and at 60 and 120 days of storage periods”
e1“stored corn grains”
e2“Sitophilus zeamais”
Title
EFEITO RESIDUAL DE INSETICIDAS NATURAIS NO CONTROLE DE SITOPHILUS ZEAMAIS MOTS. EM MILHO ARMAZENADO
Rodrigo Leandro Braga de Castro Coitinho; José Vargas de Oliveira; Manoel Guedes Corrêa Gondim Junior; et al. DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2006
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Silica dioxide caused 38.3% pest mortality after 60 days.
- Intervention effect Silica dioxide caused 37.5% pest mortality after 120 days.
- Intervention effect Other powders induced little mortality.
- Intervention effect Silica dioxide was most efficient in reducing adult emergence across three storage periods.
- Intervention effect All tested oils caused more than 79% pest mortality initially.
- Intervention effect Oil-induced pest mortality was below 2.5% after 60 and 120 days.
- Association Adult emergence increased with storage duration.
- Intervention effect Neem oil performed best at 120 days, followed by andiroba, cedar, rosemary and E. globulus oils.