A New Problem and Old Questions: Potato Psyllid in the Pacific Northwest
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli (Šulc) (Hemiptera: Triozidae) is a small phloem-feeding insect that develops almost exclusively on plants within the Solanaceae ( Fig. 1 A). The psyllid was described in 1909 by Karel Šulc from specimens collected in Boulder, Colorado, and is found in Mexico, Central America, the western U.S., and southern Canada, and as an introduction in New Zealand ( Wallis 1955 , Teulon et al. 2009 , Munyaneza 2012 ). Outbreaks of potato psyllid in North America occurred at regular intervals in potatoes, tomatoes, and peppers beginning in the late 1800s and extending into the mid-1900s, largely along a corridor on both sides of the Rocky Mountains. The outbreaks failed to extend into the Pacific Northwest. That pattern changed dramatically in 2011, when an outbreak of potato psyllid caused massive economic losses to potato growers in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Losses were due to a new tuber disorder (“zebra chip”; Fig. 1 B-C), now known to be associated with a bacterium that is vectored by potato psyllid.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it