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Claim · #6493801

Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum

pathogen pressure · effect: harmful

pathogenOf GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“late blight fungus Phytophthora infestans”
Authors
Unknown
Year
Unknown
Publication
Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
Page
234

AI critic verdicts

  • agroecologist · plausible

    “P. infestans causing late blight on S. tuberosum tubers is well-established; minor quibble that source_quote calls it 'fungus' but oomycete classification in structured fields is correct.”

  • plant-pathologist · plausible

    “P. infestans is a well-established oomycete pathogen of potato causing late blight; source misnames it 'fungus' but biological claim is correct and eponymous-host direction is accurate.”

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