Claim · #6493167
Potato virus Y · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“aphids transmit a large number of viruses, such as potato virus Y”
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AI critic verdicts
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Aphids are well-established vectors of PVY (a potyvirus) on potato via non-persistent stylet-borne transmission; source quote and mechanism are consistent.”
- agroecologist · implausible
“PVY is non-persistently transmitted on aphid stylets (epidermal/mesophyll inoculation), not deposited in phloem/parenchyma as stated in 'mechanism'; the phloem-deposition detail is characteristic of persistent viruses, making the mechanism field biologically incorrect.”
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