Claim · #6492280
Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“late blight fungus Phytophthora infestans became established, epidemic proportions”
- Authors
- Rubatzky V.E., Yamaguchi M.
- Year
- 1997
- Publication
- Chapman & Hall / Springer Science+Business Media
- Page
- 106
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“P. infestans is a well-established oomycete pathogen of S. tuberosum causing catastrophic foliar and tuber blight; the 1845-46 Irish famine association is historically and biologically canonical.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“P. infestans is an oomycete (correctly noted in pest_organism_type), its devastation of Irish potato crops in 1845–46 is historically and biologically well-established; minor 'fungus' label in extracted_claim is offset by correct classification field.”
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