Claim · #6492795
Uromyces loti · pathogen pressure · Lotus japonicus
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“mutations in common symbiosis genes in Lotus japonicus had no effect on infection by Uromyces loti”
- Authors
- Smith S.E., Read D.
- Year
- 2008
- Publication
- Academic Press (Elsevier)
- Page
- 113
AI critic verdicts
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Uromyces loti is a known rust fungus on Lotus spp.; biotrophic shoot pathogens don't use root symbiosis (CSP) pathways, so no effect of common symbiosis gene mutations is biologically expected.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Uromyces loti is a known biotrophic rust pathogen of Lotus spp.; shoot-infecting rusts don't use root symbiosis (CSP) pathways, making the no-effect finding biologically coherent.”
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