Claim · model-written summary
Soil silicon amendment lowered sugarcane borer larval relative growth rates.
- Taxon
- Diatraea saccharalis
Diatraea saccharalist0 - Treatment
- Soil Si amendmente0
- Interactor
- sugarcane borerDiatraea saccharalise0pest
- Outcome
- relative growth rates (RGRs)e0
- Direction
- lowere0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Soil Si amendment led to lower relative growth rates (RGRs) and reduced boring success of sugarcane borer larvae”
t0“Diatraea saccharalis”
Title
J.K. Sidhu; M.J. Stout; D.C. Blouin; et al. Bulletin of Entomological Research 2013. doi:10.1017/s0007485313000369
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Calcium silicate increased rice silicon content versus untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Soil silicon amendment reduced sugarcane borer larval boring success.
- Intervention effect Amendment effects on borer growth and success appeared stronger in Cocodrie than XL723.
- Recommendation The authors suggested silicon amendment for management of D. saccharalis.