Claim · #6493325
Ustilago maydis · pathogen pressure · Zea mays
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“corn kernels replaced by galls containing spores of Ustilago maydis”
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- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
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- 123
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Ustilago maydis is a well-documented basidiomycete smut pathogen of Zea mays that induces galls replacing kernel tissue with teliospores, fully consistent with all structured fields.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Ustilago maydis is a well-established basidiomycete smut pathogen of Zea mays; gall formation replacing kernels with teliospore masses is its canonical disease symptom.”
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