Claim · #6493118
Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“potato fields in northern Europe and in Ireland became masses of blighted and rotting vegetation”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 19
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“P. infestans as an oomycete causing catastrophic late blight on all potato parts in cool wet conditions is textbook-accurate; source quote corroborates foliar/stem damage consistent with structured fields.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Phytophthora infestans as oomycete pathogen of Solanum tuberosum causing late blight is textbook; eponymous-pathogen direction is correct, and the source quote supports the structured fields.”
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