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Claim · #6493321

Maize streak virus · pathogen pressure · Zea mays

pathogen pressure · effect: harmful

pathogenOf GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“stunting caused by the maize streak virus on corn”
Authors
Unknown
Year
Unknown
Publication
Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
Page
122

AI critic verdicts

  • agroecologist · plausible

    “Maize streak virus (MSV, genus Mastrevirus) is a well-documented pathogen of Zea mays causing stunting and streaking; source quote directly supports the structured fields.”

  • plant-pathologist · plausible

    “Maize streak virus (genus Mastrevirus, family Geminiviridae) is a well-documented pathogen of Zea mays causing streaking and stunting; subject/object direction is correct with no eponymous conflation issue.”

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