Abstract
Since 1991, the silverleaf whitefly has caused serious damage to alfalfa production in the southern desert region. Reports from the Imperial County Agricultural Commissioner suggest that direct and indirect effects of the whitefly have caused average forage yields to decrease by 17%. Recently developed plant-breeding procedures are proving successful in developing genetic resistance to this insect. We expect to have adapted cultivars with silverleaf whitefly resistance available to growers by 2000.
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Claims 2
Claim · model-written summary
Whitefly damage was associated with a 17% decrease in average alfalfa forage yields.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Interactor
- whiteflye0pest
- Outcome
- forage yieldse0
- Direction
- decreasee0
- Value
- 17%e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“direct and indirect effects of the whitefly have caused average forage yields to decrease by 17%”
t0“alfalfa”
Claim · model-written summary
Plant breeding procedures were reported successful in developing whitefly resistance in alfalfa.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativat0
- Interactor
- silverleaf whitefly
Bemisia argentifoliit0pest - Outcome
- genetic resistancee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Recently developed plant-breeding procedures are proving successful in developing genetic resistance to this insect”
t0“Breeding resistant alfalfa holds promise for silverleaf whitefly management”