Claim · #6493291
Tobacco mosaic virus · pathogen pressure · Nicotiana tabacum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“humans disseminate some pathogens, such as tobacco mosaic virus, through the successive handling of diseased and healthy plants”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 100
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“TMV's mechanical transmission via contact/handling is well-established; source quote directly supports the extracted claim, and virus-on-tobacco classification is correct.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Mechanical transmission of TMV via human handling is a well-established, textbook fact; source quote directly supports the extracted claim with no eponymous-conflation error.”
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