Claim · model-written summary
Tobacco spray caused 10% aphid mortality on rape.
- Taxon
- Brassica napus
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Brassica napust0 - Treatment
- tobacco spraye1
- Interactor
- Brevicoryne brassicat0pest
- Outcome
- aphid mortalitye1
- Direction
- higherinferrede1
- Value
- 10%e1
- Comparator
- unsprayed infested plantse2
- Setting
- Marondera, Zimbabwee3
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Verbatim
e1“Lippia spray, garlic and chilli spray and tobacco spray had 77, 70 and 10% aphid mortality, respectively”
e2“The control was unsprayed infested plants”
e3“A trial was carried out at the Horticulture Research Centre, Marondera, Zimbabwe in 2007”
t0“Aphid (Brevicoryne brassica) Mortality on Rape (Brassica napus) Plants”
Title
Mary L. Mhazo; N. Mhazo; Michael T. Masarirambi Research Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences 2011
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Spray and buttermilk formulations of Solanum caused 100% aphid mortality on rape, 12 days after spraying.
- Intervention effect Garlic buttermilk caused 100% aphid mortality on rape, 12 days after spraying.
- Intervention effect Lippia spray caused 77% aphid mortality on rape.
- Intervention effect Garlic and chilli spray caused 70% aphid mortality on rape.
- Observation Unsprayed control plants had 0% aphid mortality.
- Recommendation Local wild plants (Solanum and Lippia) and garlic can be formulated and used as organic pesticides against aphids on rape.