Olive trees, which are a critical component of Mediterranean agriculture, are threatened by a bacterium which causes a disease called quick decline syndrome (QDS). This bacteria can quickly destroy the trees and has already devastated entire olive groves in Italy and Spain. There are several methods to protect olive trees from QDS, but the following three are widely considered to be the most effective.
Early detection of the bacteria is critical to preventing the spread of the disease. Farmers should regularly inspect their trees and look for signs of disease, such as yellowing and withering leaves, dying branches, and slow growth. If a tree shows signs of infection, it should be immediately removed and burned to prevent the spread of the bacterium to other trees. The government and agricultural organizations can also play a significant role in early detection by encouraging farmers to take part in this strategy.
Promoting the overall health of olive trees is another effective strategy to prevent the spread of the bacteria. Trees that are in good health are better equipped to resist infections and recover from diseases. Proper irrigation, fertilization and trimming are all essential for promoting tree health. Farmers can also plant saplings that have shown some genetic ability to resist Xylella this disease.
Since the bacteria is transmitted to olive trees by sap-sucking insects, mainly the spittlebug, reducing the populations of such insects is crucial in controlling the spread of the disease. The most effective method farmers can use to control insect populations is spraying chemical insecticides. An additional strategy is to introduce natural predators of the insects, such as ladybugs, lacewings, and wasps, which can help reduce their populations over time.
Both the reading and a lecture are about prevention and eradication of a decease called QDS. While the article provides some useful ideas, like detection, health promotion and an insects reduction approach, professor shares his concerns.
Reading passage proposes to develop a proper detection of the bacteria which causes such a decease in the first place. For example, by establishing early the endangered trees, we can stop further spreading by removing such plants and burning them down. While lecturer supports the argument that such a system has some potential, he casts doubt that it would be capable to commit much to help resolve this issue. First of all, as the area to perform inspections proposed in the reading is quite large, detection can’t be effective enough. Secondly, there are signs of infection which are not available for the visual inspection.
Then article examines how the commitment to the health promotion of olives can beat the QDS. As trees have a natural immune system that is capable of overcoming decease if irrigation and nutrition are ensured, it could be helpful to provide such plants with good conditions of living in order to prevent them from destruction. Professor, on the other hand, states that such a process would cost much money and casts doubt that it will work in the first place.
Finally, using chemicals to influence the spread of such an illness is another possible method according to the reading. Professor supports that this idea might work but he continues to share his concerns. He argues that such a technology is difficult to use. Moreover, this approach is based on battling bacteria when it’s to late, as professor elaborates on, because the bacteria has already endangered the plant, so it might be ineffective, not to mention that some insects are resistant to chemicals.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'insects'' or 'insect's'?
Suggestion: insects'; insect's
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: Did you mean 'too'?
Suggestion: too
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, while, for example, first of all, in the first place, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 10.4613686534 134% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 30.3222958057 119% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 5.01324503311 339% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1545.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 302.0 270.72406181 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11589403974 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64528090646 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.579470198675 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 472.5 419.366225166 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.23620309051 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 1.25165562914 479% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.2068100961 49.2860985944 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.357142857 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5714285714 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.57142857143 7.06452816374 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.110847778393 0.272083759551 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0382815968551 0.0996497079465 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.036953402294 0.0662205650399 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0618824992244 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0199846491098 0.0443174109184 45% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.3589403974 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.42419426049 110% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 63.6247240618 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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