Claim · #6493824
Pythium aphanidermatum · pathogen pressure · Nicotiana tabacum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“oomycete Pythium aphanidermatum, the cell walls of which lack chitin”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 244
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Oomycetes are well-established as having cellulose-based, chitin-free cell walls; source quote directly supports the extracted claim about P. aphanidermatum.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Oomycete cell walls are cellulose-based, not chitin-based; source quote directly confirms 'cell walls of which lack chitin,' supporting the extracted claim.”
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