Claim · #6493835
Juniperus virginiana · pathogen pressure · Malus domestica
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Cedar-apple rust produces cedar apples on cedar; basidiospores produced on cedar-apple telial horns.”
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- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
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AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae is a well-established heteroecious rust using Juniperus virginiana as telial host and Malus as aecial host; basidiospore infection of apple is textbook-accurate.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae is the well-established cedar-apple rust fungus using Juniperus virginiana as telial host and Malus as aecial host; basidiospore infection of apple is textbook biology.”
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