Abstract
SUMMARY Menazon, an organophosphorus insecticide (only slightly toxic to mammals), applied to sugar‐beet seed, decreased the proportion of seedlings infested with aphids during May and early June and the number of aphids per plant during June and early July to one‐third of that in the control plots. It also checked the spread of virus yellows. Of eight field trials in 1965, 1966 and 1967 in which more than 10% of the plants in plots not treated with insecticide had yellows, menazon seed dressing increased sugar yield by about 8 cwt per acre. Spraying with demeton‐methyl when ‘a spray warning’ was issued in the area gave a similar increase, and had no further effect on plots sown with menazon‐treated seed. Menazon‐dressed sugar‐beet seed is recommended in regions where yellows is usually prevalent, or where there is reason to expect a large aphid infestation.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Menazon seed treatment decreased the proportion of aphid-infested seedlings.
- Taxon
- sugar‐beet
Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgarise0 - Treatment
- Menazone0
- Interactor
- aphidsAphidomorphae0pest
- Outcome
- proportion of seedlings infested with aphidse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Menazon, an organophosphorus insecticide (only slightly toxic to mammals), applied to sugar‐beet seed, decreased the proportion of seedlings infested with aphids during May and early June”
Claim · model-written summary
Menazon seed treatment reduced aphids per plant to one-third of controls.
- Taxon
- sugar‐beetBeta vulgaris subsp. vulgarist0
- Treatment
- menazon seed dressingt0
- Interactor
- aphidsAphidomorphae0pest
- Outcome
- number of aphids per plante0
- Value
- one‐thirde0
- Comparator
- control plotse0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the number of aphids per plant during June and early July to one‐third of that in the control plots”
t0“menazon seed dressing to decrease spread of virus yellows in sugar‐beet root crops”
Claim · model-written summary
Menazon seed dressing checked virus yellows spread.
- Taxon
- sugar‐beetBeta vulgaris subsp. vulgarist0
- Treatment
- menazon seed dressingt0
- Interactor
- virus yellowse0pathogen
- Outcome
- spread of virus yellowse0
- Direction
- checkede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“It also checked the spread of virus yellows”
t0“menazon seed dressing to decrease spread of virus yellows in sugar‐beet root crops”
Claim · model-written summary
Menazon seed dressing increased sugar yield by about 8 cwt per acre in trials with substantial untreated yellows.
- Taxon
- sugar‐beetBeta vulgaris subsp. vulgarist0
- Treatment
- menazon seed dressinge0
- Outcome
- sugar yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- about 8 cwt per acree0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“menazon seed dressing increased sugar yield by about 8 cwt per acre”
t0“sugar‐beet”
Claim · model-written summary
Demeton-methyl spraying gave a similar sugar yield increase.
- Taxon
- sugar‐beetBeta vulgaris subsp. vulgarist0
- Treatment
- Spraying with demeton‐methyle0
- Outcome
- similar increasee0
- Direction
- increasee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Spraying with demeton‐methyl when ‘a spray warning’ was issued in the area gave a similar increase”
t0“sugar‐beet”
Claim · model-written summary
Demeton-methyl spraying had no further effect on menazon-treated plots.
- Taxon
- sugar‐beetBeta vulgaris subsp. vulgarist0
- Treatment
- demeton‐methyle0
- Outcome
- further effecte0
- Direction
- no further effecte0
- Comparator
- plots sown with menazon‐treated seede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Spraying with demeton‐methyl when ‘a spray warning’ was issued in the area gave a similar increase, and had no further effect on plots sown with menazon‐treated seed”
t0“sugar‐beet”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend menazon-dressed seed where yellows is prevalent or a large aphid infestation is expected.
- Taxon
- sugar‐beetBeta vulgaris subsp. vulgarise0
- Interactor
- aphide0pest
- Outcome
- Menazon‐dressed sugar‐beet seede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Menazon‐dressed sugar‐beet seed is recommended in regions where yellows is usually prevalent, or where there is reason to expect a large aphid infestation”
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