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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”
Authors
Unknown
Year
Unknown
Publication
Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
Page
202

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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