Claim · #6493711
Melampsora lini · pathogen pressure · Linum usitatissimum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“the flax L 6 gene, which confers resistance to the rust fungus Melampsora lini.”
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- Year
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- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 158
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Melampsora lini is the well-established flax rust pathogen; L6 R-gene resistance to M. lini is a canonical gene-for-gene model system, consistent with source quote.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Melampsora lini is the correct causal agent of flax rust, and the L6/AvrL567 gene-for-gene interaction in flax is a well-documented, landmark model of NLR resistance; source quote supports the structured fields.”
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