Claim · #6492133
Magnaporthe oryzae · pathogen pressure · Oryza sativa
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Enhanced genetic diversity reduced blast incidence by 94% and increased total yields by 89%”
- Source
- Agroecosystems Analysis
- Authors
- Rickerl D., Francis C., Gliessman S.R., Nicholls C.I., Altieri M.A., Janke R.R., Dobbs T.L., Flora C.B., Schumacher T.E., Caldwell R.M., Salomonsson L., Lieblein G., Helenius J., Kirschenmann F.
- Year
- 2004
- Publication
- Agronomy Monograph No. 43, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America
- Page
- 55
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“The Yunnan rice variety mixture trial (Zhu et al. 2000) is a well-documented agroecological case; 94% blast reduction via diversity is consistent with published findings and source quote.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Magnaporthe oryzae causing rice blast on Oryza sativa is taxonomically correct; the 94% reduction via varietal mixtures in Yunnan is consistent with well-documented Zhu et al. (2000) Science field trials on ~3000+ hectares.”
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