Claim · #6493869
Candidatus Phytoplasma pyri · pathogen pressure · Pyrus communis
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“tristeza in citrus, pear decline, Dutch elm disease, and chestnut blight, take years to develop”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
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- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 270
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“CTV causing slow-developing epidemics over years is well-documented; source quote directly supports the extracted claim and structured fields are biologically consistent.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Citrus tristeza virus (CTV, Closterovirus) is a well-documented vascular/phloem pathogen of citrus causing slow-developing epidemics; source quote directly supports the slow-progression characterization.”
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