Claim · model-written summary
Nematode applications reduced damage to squash blossoms and fruit.
- Taxon
- squash plantse1
- Treatment
- Nematode applicationse0
- Interactor
- pickleworme2pest
- Outcome
- damage to blossoms and fruite0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Verbatim
e0“Nematode applications reduced damage to blossoms and fruit”
e1“squash plants”
e2“the pickleworm, Diaphania nitidalis (Stoll)”
Title
H. K. Shannag; S. E. Webb; J. L. Capinera Journal of Economic Entomology 1994. doi:10.1093/jee/87.5.1205
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Five nematode species differed significantly in virulence against pickleworm.
- Observation S. carpocapsae Mexican strain had the lowest LC50 and was more pathogenic than four other nematodes.
- Association Nematode infectivity was positively correlated with pickleworm mortality.
- Association Larval mortality and nematode penetration rose with host exposure time for three nematodes.
- Association Smaller nematode species were more infective and induced mortality faster.
- Observation First instars and pupae were less affected than older larvae and prepupae; pupae were particularly refractory.
- Observation Applied S. carpocapsae entered squash blossoms, persisted and infected pickleworms.
- Intervention effect Weekly nematode application at 2.5 billion/ha protected squash fruit as well as permethrin.