Claim · #6492281
Streptomyces scabies · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Soil pH less than 5.4 helps to control common potato scab”
- Authors
- Rubatzky V.E., Yamaguchi M.
- Year
- 1997
- Publication
- Chapman & Hall / Springer Science+Business Media
- Page
- 110
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Streptomyces scabies is correctly classified as an actinomycete; pH <5.4 suppressing scab is a well-established IPM recommendation supported by the source quote.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Streptomyces scabies is well-documented to be suppressed below pH 5.4, as acidic soils inhibit this actinomycete pathogen of potato tubers.”
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