Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Spinosad seed treatment had the highest efficacy against wireworms, superior to the standard insecticide and chlorantraniliprole.

A claim from Seed Treatment Alternatives with Improved Ecological Profiles for Controlling Wireworms in Maize and Early-Season Sugar Beet Pests · 2026

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Spinosad seed treatment had the highest efficacy against wireworms, superior to the standard insecticide and chlorantraniliprole.

Taxon
MaizeZea mayst0
Treatment
spinosad seed treatmente0
Interactor
wirewormse0pest
Outcome
efficacy against wirewormse0
Direction
higheste0
Comparator
standard insecticidee0

Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Zea mays
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Verbatim

e0

“spinosad seed treatment showed the highest efficacy against wireworms and was superior to both the standard insecticide and chlorantraniliprole”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 989–1132
t0

“Maize”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 91–96

Title

Seed Treatment Alternatives with Improved Ecological Profiles for Controlling Wireworms in Maize and Early-Season Sugar Beet Pests

Renata Bažok; Darija Lemić; Dragan Bubalo; et al. Plants 2026. doi:10.3390/plants15101488

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spinosad · control · Zea mays (maize)Positive and negative results

5 papers: 4 positive, 1 negative or no effect

3 papers in the same direction as this claim · 1 reporting no difference from an alternative

  1. no effect
  2. positive
  3. positive
  4. positive
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seed treatment · control · Zea mays (maize)Positive and negative results

20 papers: 17 positive, 3 negative or no effect

16 papers in the same direction as this claim · 2 in the opposite direction · 1 reporting no difference from an alternative

  1. no effect
  2. negative
  3. no effect
  4. positive
  5. positive
  6. positive
  7. positive
  8. positive

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Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.