Claim · model-written summary
Insecticide treatments significantly reduced tuber damage versus untreated controls.
- Taxon
- Potato
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Treatment
- insecticide treatmentse0
- Interactor
- Potato Tuberworm
Phthorimaea operculellat0pest - Outcome
- tuber damagee0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- untreated controle0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“All insecticide treatments significantly reduced tuber damage compared with the untreated control”
t0“Potato Tuberworm”
Title
G. H. Clough; S. I. Rondon; S. J. Debano; et al. Journal of Economic Entomology 2010. doi:10.1603/ec09065
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Earlier insecticide control had no apparent advantage over later control.
- Intervention effect Insecticide applications at and after vine-kill reduced tuberworm infestation.
- Intervention effect Daily irrigation after vine-kill reduced potato tuber damage.
- Intervention effect Chemical vine-kill tended to reduce tuber damage compared with natural senescence.
- Intervention effect Soil covering of hills provided good protection when completed by vine-kill.
- Recommendation The authors identify immediately before and at vine-kill as the critical time to begin control.