Claim · #6492124
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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