Claim · #6492797
Uromyces loti · pathogen pressure · Lotus japonicus
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“no effect on infection of shoots by biotrophic pathogen 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 biotrophic rust fungus on Lotus spp.; the claim that symbiosis (SYM) pathway mutations don't affect rust infection is biologically coherent and consistent with the source quote.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Uromyces loti is a known biotrophic rust fungus on Lotus spp.; shoot infection with low pathogenic effect aligns with the source quote and biological expectation.”
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