Claim · model-written summary
Steinernema kushidai caused significantly higher O. elegans mortality (100%) than S. glaseri with eight infected cadavers.
- Taxon
- date palm
Phoenix dactyliferae0 - Treatment
- infected cadaverse1
- Interactor
- Oryctes elegans
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Oryctes eleganse0pest - Second interactor
- S. kushidaiSteinernema kushidaie1biocontrol_agent
- Outcome
- mortality percentagese1
- Direction
- highere1
- Value
- 100%e1
- Qualifier
- eighte1
- Comparator
- S. glaserie1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSetting
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“The fruit stalk borer (Oryctes elegans) is an important pest of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) trees in Saudi Arabia”
e1“S. kushidai caused significantly higher mortality percentages ± SE (72.17 ± 5.57, 95.83 ± 4.17, 94.43 ± 5.57, and 100%) compared with S. glaseri when the fruit stalk borer, O. elegans, was treated for 6 wk with two, four, six, and eight infected cadavers, respectively”
Title
Atwa A Atwa Journal of Insect Science 2018. doi:10.1093/jisesa/iey060
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Steinernema kushidai caused significantly higher O. elegans mortality (72.17 ± 5.57) than S. glaseri when the borer was treated for 6 weeks with two infected cadavers.
- Intervention effect Steinernema kushidai caused significantly higher O. elegans mortality (95.83 ± 4.17) than S. glaseri with four infected cadavers.
- Intervention effect Steinernema kushidai caused significantly higher O. elegans mortality (94.43 ± 5.57) than S. glaseri with six infected cadavers.
- Intervention effect Both nematode species significantly affected O. elegans larval mortality under laboratory conditions.
- Association Insect mortality varied significantly with nematode exposure duration under laboratory conditions.
- Intervention effect Nematode aqueous suspensions and Galleria-infected cadavers gave no difference in insect larval mortality.
- Intervention effect Nematode aqueous suspension for 4 days gave the same mortality rates as Galleria-infected cadavers.
- Intervention effect Mortality rates differed for nematode-infected cadavers under field conditions.
- Association Mean corrected mortality varied between nematode species and between numbers of infected cadavers.