Claim · model-written summary
Second-period aphid infestation reduced potato tuber dry weight by 54%.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosume1 - Treatment
- Myzus persicae (Sulzer) infestationse1
- Interactor
- Myzus persicae
Myzus persicaee1pest - Outcome
- dry weighte0
- Direction
- reductione0
- Value
- 54%e0
- Qualifier
- second period (DD = 745)e0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Infested plants exhibited the following reductions in dry weight: first period (DD = 519), no tubers for comparison; second period (DD = 745), 54% reduction; and third period (DD = 963), 17% reduction”
e1“Myzus persicae (Sulzer) infestations on potato foliage and tuber production”
Title
Green Peach Aphid Feeding Damage to Potato in Various Plant Growth Stages12
F. L. Petitt; Z. Smilowitz Journal of Economic Entomology 1982. doi:10.1093/jee/75.3.431
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Third-period aphid infestation reduced potato tuber dry weight by 17%.
- Intervention effect Plants kept aphid-free after first-period infestation had 35% less tuber dry weight at final harvest.
- Intervention effect Aphid feeding during any period decreased moisture content of infested potato leaves.
- Intervention effect Early-season aphid stress increased allocation to potato leaf growth.
- Intervention effect Early-season aphid stress severely retarded potato stem growth.