AgroEco

Claim · #6492007

Banana streak badnavirus · pathogen pressure · Musa spp.

pathogen pressure · effect: harmful

pathogenOf GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“genome of banana streak badnavirus was integrated into the host genome and in certain cultivars was activated to give episomal infection”
Authors
Hull R.
Year
2014
Publication
Academic Press / Elsevier
License
copyrighted

AI critic verdicts

  • agroecologist · plausible

    “BSV endogenous integration activating to episomal infection in susceptible Musa cultivars is well-documented virology; source quote directly supports the structured claim.”

  • plant-pathologist · plausible

    “BSV endogenous integration activating to episomal infection in Musa is well-documented biological fact; no eponymous conflation, direction correct.”

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