Claim · model-written summary
Fungicidal sprays increased yield more than insecticidal sprays.
- Taxon
- Alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- Fungicidal sprayse0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- greater yield increasese0
- Comparator
- insecticidal sprayse0
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Verbatim
t0“Minnesota Alfalfa Ecosystem”
e0“Fungicidal sprays resulted in greater yield increases than did insecticidal sprays; combinations were additive in effect.”
Title
E. B. Radcliffe; R. W. Weires; R. E. Stucker; et al. Environmental Entomology 1976. doi:10.1093/ee/5.6.1195
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Cultivar resistance differed most for pea aphid and spotted alfalfa aphid.
- Observation Cultivar differences for other pest species were smaller but sometimes significant.
- Intervention effect Pesticides raised forage yield, with benefit dependent on pest pressure and cultivar.
- Intervention effect Combined fungicide and insecticide sprays had additive yield effects.
- Intervention effect Fungicide treated plots had higher aphid populations.
- Intervention effect Fungicide treated plots had higher populations of entomophagous taxa.
- Mechanism Fungicides enhanced aphid populations by suppressing entomogenous fungi.
- Association Weekly aphid and associated arthropod populations had consistent significant positive correlations.