Claim · model-written summary
The last insecticide application for WC‐12NL was 10 days earlier.
- Taxon
- Cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Material
- WC‐12NLe0
- Outcome
- last application datese0
- Direction
- earliere0
- Value
- 10 de0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“First and last application dates averaged 21 d later and 10 d earlier, respectively, for WC‐12NL.”
t0“Cotton Resistant to Pink Bollworm”
Title
Reduction in Insecticide Use Associated with Cotton Resistant to Pink Bollworm
F. Douglas Wilson; Hollis M. Flint; Louis A. Bariola; et al. Crop Science 1991. doi:10.2135/cropsci1991.0011183x003100020028x
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation WC‐12NL required 41% fewer insecticide applications than Deltapine 61.
- Observation The first insecticide application for WC‐12NL was 21 days later.
- Observation WC‐12NL had less seed damage caused by PBW than Deltapine 61.
- Observation WC‐12NL had more lint than Deltapine 61.
- Observation WC‐12NL had earlier earlier than Deltapine 61.
- Observation WC‐12NL had inferior fiber properties than Deltapine 61.
- Intervention effect Ethephon increased earliness of Deltapine 61.
- Intervention effect Ethephon did not affect earliness of WC‐12NL, possibly because application was too late.
- Observation Location, season and interactions affected results without changing the main conclusion.
- Recommendation A line like WC‐12NL with improved fiber could be valuable where PBW is a problem.