Claim · model-written summary
Spinosad was safe to natural enemies.
- Taxon
- eggplant
Solanum melongenat0 - Interactor
- natural enemiese0biocontrol_agent
- Outcome
- natural enemiese0
- Direction
- safee0
- Comparator
- the chemical insecticidese0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“eggplant (Solanum melongena L.)”
e0“was safe to natural enemies whereas the chemical insecticides proved toxic to them”
Title
Shyam Sundar Sharma; H. D. Kaushik Journal of Entomological Research 2010
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Spinosad minimized shoot and fruit borer damage on shoots, flower buds and fruits.
- Intervention effect Spinosad gave maximum fruit yield.
- Intervention effect Spinosad gave the highest cost-benefit ratio.
- Intervention effect Spinosad was ineffective against sucking pests.
- Intervention effect Spinosad was ineffective against hadda beetles.
- Intervention effect Chemical insecticides were toxic to natural enemies.