Claim · #6493876
Venturia inaequalis · pathogen pressure · Malus domestica
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“apple scab caused by Venturia inaequalis (EPIVEN)”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 289
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Venturia inaequalis as a high-severity ascomycete pathogen on Malus domestica causing scab on leaves/fruit, worst during spring on young foliage, is textbook-correct and source quote confirms the association.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Venturia inaequalis is the well-established ascomycete causing apple scab; young-foliage susceptibility and spring epidemic peak are textbook facts consistent with Mills periods.”
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