Claim · #6493868
Erwinia tracheiphila · pathogen pressure · Cucurbita pepo
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“bacteria (such as the cause of bacterial wilt of cucurbits)... are disseminated primarily by beetles”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 272
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Erwinia tracheiphila is well-established as vectored by cucumber beetles (Acalymma/Diabrotica spp.); source quote directly supports the dissemination-by-beetles claim.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Erwinia tracheiphila is indeed vectored primarily by cucumber beetles (Acalymma vittatum, Diabrotica undecimpunctata), a well-established plant-pathology fact consistent with the source quote.”
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