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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