Claim · #6493286
Cronartium ribicola · pathogen pressure · Pinus spp.
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Blister canker on a pine tree in which the bark and phloem have been killed by the fungus Cronartium ribicola”
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- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 115
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Cronartium ribicola is a well-documented heteroecious rust fungus causing white pine blister rust, killing bark and phloem of Pinus spp.; source quote directly supports all structured fields.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Cronartium ribicola is a well-documented heteroecious rust fungus causing white pine blister rust, killing bark and phloem of Pinus spp.; introduced to North America ~1900.”
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