Claim · #6493264
Erwinia tracheiphila · pathogen pressure · Cucumis melo
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Cantaloupes in a field where the plants had been killed by the bacterium E. tracheiphila”
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- Year
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- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 112
AI critic verdicts
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Erwinia tracheiphila is a well-established vascular wilt pathogen of cucurbits including Cucumis melo; source quote directly confirms field-killed cantaloupe plants.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Erwinia tracheiphila is a well-established vascular wilt pathogen of cucurbits; source quote directly confirms cantaloupe plant death by this bacterium.”
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