Claim · #6492061
Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Phytophthora infestans (causing late blight in potatoes and tomatoes) decimated the Irish potato crop”
- Authors
- Magdoff F., Van Es H.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE), National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Page
- 53
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“P. infestans is a well-established oomycete pathogen of S. tuberosum; source quote, mechanism, effect direction, and historical context all align correctly.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Phytophthora infestans is a well-established oomycete pathogen of Solanum tuberosum; source quote correctly identifies direction, mechanism, and historical impact.”
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