AgroEco

Claim · #6492994

Pythium ultimum · pathogen pressure · Gossypium hirsutum

pathogen pressure · effect: harmful

pathogenOf GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“pyoluteorin contributes to the suppression of the oomycete pathogen P. ultimum on cotton seedlings”
Authors
Andow D.A., Ragsdale D.W., Nyvall R.F.
Year
1997
Publication
Westview Press / Routledge
Page
111

AI critic verdicts

  • agroecologist · plausible

    “Pythium ultimum is a well-documented oomycete pathogen causing damping-off in cotton seedlings; P. fluorescens Pf-5 suppression via pyoluteorin is established in biocontrol literature.”

  • plant-pathologist · plausible

    “Pythium ultimum is a well-established oomycete damping-off pathogen of cotton seedlings; pyoluteorin from P. fluorescens Pf-5 suppressing it is experimentally documented.”

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