Claim · #6493781
Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“the potato late blight fungus Phytophthora infestans”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 219
AI critic verdicts
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“P. infestans is correctly typed as oomycete; source calls it 'fungus' (a common lay error) but the structured fields correctly classify it, and the host-pathogen relationship is unambiguous.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“P. infestans causing potato late blight is textbook fact; only minor issue is source_quote calls it 'fungus' though it is an oomycete — fields correctly classify it as oomycete.”
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