Claim · model-written summary
Increasing beetle densities decreased potato total yield by 66%.
- Taxon
- S. tuberosum
Solanum tuberosume0 - Treatment
- increasing population densities of L. decemlineatae0
- Interactor
- L. decemlineata
Leptinotarsa decemlineatae0pest - Outcome
- Total yielde0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Value
- 66%e0
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Verbatim
e0“Total yield of S. tuberosum was decreased by 66% with increasing population densities of L. decemlineata and 27 % with increasing densities of P. penetrans.”
Title
J W Noling; G W Bird; E J Grafius PubMed 1984
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Pratylenchus penetrans reduced the number of tubers formed during tuber initiation.
- Association Beetle defoliation increased as larvae developed and densities rose.
- Intervention effect Beetle defoliation significantly reduced tuber weight and numbers.
- Intervention effect Increasing nematode densities decreased potato total yield by 27 %.
- Intervention effect Beetle feeding did not affect soil nematode population density.
- Intervention effect Root nematode densities were significantly higher in beetle-free plants than beetle-exposed plants.