Claim · #6493721
Puccinia spp. · pathogen pressure · Triticum aestivum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“susceptibility of dwarf wheats to new races of Septoria and Puccinia”
- Authors
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- Year
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- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 172
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Puccinia rust on Triticum aestivum is well-documented; genetic uniformity from semi-dwarf varieties (Rht genes) increasing susceptibility to new Puccinia races is a recognized Green Revolution consequence.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Puccinia rust on Triticum aestivum is well-documented; genetic uniformity from dwarfing genes (Rht) reducing race-specific resistance is a textbook coevolutionary vulnerability concept.”
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