Claim · #6492102
Fungi (kingdom) · pathogen pressure · Oryza sativa
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“crop pests and pathogens destroy an estimated 30%–40% of potential yield”
- Source
- Agroecology: Leading the Transformation to a Just and Sustainable Food System, Fourth Edition
- Authors
- Gliessman S.R., Méndez V.E., Izzo V.M., Engles E.W.
- Year
- 2023
- Publication
- CRC Press / Taylor & Francis Group
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“The 30-40% global crop loss figure from pests/pathogens is well-established in literature (Oerke 2006); assigning 'high' severity fungal pressure to rice is biologically reasonable.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“The 30–40% global crop loss estimate to pests and pathogens is a widely cited figure (IPPC/FAO literature), and fungal pathogens are major contributors to rice yield losses worldwide.”
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