Claim · #6493768
Septoria lycopersici · pathogen pressure · Solanum lycopersicum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“fungus Septoria lycopersici produces tomatinase and infects tomato plants”
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- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
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AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Septoria lycopersici is a well-documented foliar pathogen of tomato; tomatinase production to detoxify the saponin tomatine is established in literature for this fungus.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Septoria lycopersici is a well-documented fungal pathogen of tomato leaves, and its tomatinase-mediated detoxification of the saponin tomatine is a confirmed virulence mechanism.”
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