Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Mineral oils have been used for many decades to control the transmission of plant viruses and their ensuing epidemics. Although it is not clearly defined, the mode of action of these oils has been extensively studied, and effects on the feeding behaviour and orientation of the vector or the transmission of the virus by its vector have often been put forward as possible explanations. This study examines the effect of mineral oil on the interaction between potato virus Y (PVY) and its vector, the green peach aphid Myzus persicae , with particular focus on the transmission organ. A lipophilic staining technique was used to visualize the oil inside the insect's stylets for the first time. Virus binding and localization were also examined in aphid stylets following PVY acquisition. The results indicate that the presence of mineral oil on leaves reduces the likelihood of acquiring the virus. This study verified that this reduced acquisition could be accompanied by a reduction in viral load, as measured by reverse transcription‐quantitative PCR on the stylets. The effect of the oil on virus retention inside the stylets was also measured. The mechanism by which the oil impacts virus acquisition seems to take place in the very early stages of acquisition, well before the virus attaches to the stylets.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".