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Claim · #6493780

Rhizoctonia solani · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum

pathogen pressure · effect: harmful

pathogenOf GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“cork layer on a potato tuber following infection with Rhizoctonia”
Authors
Unknown
Year
Unknown
Publication
Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
Page
216

AI critic verdicts

  • agroecologist · plausible

    “Rhizoctonia solani is a well-documented soilborne pathogen of potato tubers; periderm/cork-layer formation as a wound-defense response to infection is consistent with plant pathology literature.”

  • plant-pathologist · plausible

    “Rhizoctonia solani is a well-documented basidiomycete pathogen of potato tubers; cork-layer (wound periderm) formation as host defense response to infection is consistent with established plant pathology.”

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