Claim · #6492003
Tobacco mosaic virus · pathogen pressure · Nicotiana tabacum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“described a disease of tobacco that he called Mosaikkrankheit”
- Authors
- Hull R.
- Year
- 2014
- Publication
- Academic Press / Elsevier
- License
- copyrighted
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“TMV infecting Nicotiana tabacum causing mosaic disease is historically foundational; source quote references Mosaikkrankheit (mosaic disease) in tobacco, fully consistent with structured fields.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“TMV infecting Nicotiana tabacum causing mosaic disease is the canonical foundational plant virology case; eponymous naming is correctly directed (virus named after host, not swapped).”
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