Claim · #6493334
Puccinia triticina · pathogen pressure · Triticum aestivum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“wheat has 20 to 40 genes for resistance against leaf rust fungus Puccinia recondita”
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- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 137
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Puccinia triticina (syn. P. recondita f.sp. tritici) is the correct causal agent of wheat leaf rust; 20–40 Lr resistance genes is well-documented in literature.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Puccinia triticina (syn. P. recondita f.sp. tritici) is the established wheat leaf rust pathogen; 20–40 catalogued Lr resistance genes is consistent with published literature.”
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