Claim · #6492062
Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Phytophthora infestans (causing late blight in potatoes and tomatoes)”
- 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
“Phytophthora infestans is the well-established oomycete cause of late blight on Solanum lycopersicum; source quote directly confirms tomato as a host.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“P. infestans is a well-established oomycete pathogen of Solanum lycopersicum; source quote explicitly confirms late blight in tomatoes.”
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