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Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum

pathogen pressure · effect: harmful

pathogenOf GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“Potatoes rotted in the fields and the storehouses”
Authors
Vandermeer J.H.
Year
2011
Publication
Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Page
5

AI critic verdicts

  • plant-pathologist · plausible

    “P. infestans as oomycete pathogen of S. tuberosum causing Irish famine is historically and taxonomically well-established; subject/object direction correct, no eponymous conflation.”

  • agroecologist · plausible

    “Phytophthora infestans as oomycete pathogen causing catastrophic foliage/tuber damage in Solanum tuberosum is textbook-correct; Irish Famine link is historically and biologically well-established.”

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