Claim · #6492563
Cicadellidae (family) · pathogen pressure · Beta vulgaris
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“including those causing curly top in sugarbeets”
- Authors
- Pedigo L.P.
- Year
- 2002
- Publication
- Prentice Hall / Pearson Education
- Page
- 112
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Circulifer tenellus (Cicadellidae) vectoring Beet curly top virus in Beta vulgaris is well-documented in US agroecology literature; mechanism, direction, and classification are all correct.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Beet curly top virus (Geminiviridae) is well-documented as transmitted by leafhopper Circulifer tenellus (Cicadellidae) to Beta vulgaris in the western US; direction and mechanism are correct.”
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