Claim · #6493134
Potato spindle tuber viroid · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“potato spindle tuber disease showed that it was caused by a small, naked, single-stranded, circular molecule of infectious RNA”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 26
AI critic verdicts
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Source quote correctly describes PSTVd as a naked ssRNA circular molecule causing spindle tuber disease in Solanum tuberosum; taxonomy, direction, and organism type all match.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Source quote confirms PSTVd as causative agent; viroid organism type, affected parts, and disease association are all biologically accurate for Solanum tuberosum.”
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