Claim · #6493895
Paecilomyces sp. · biocontrol · Meloidogyne spp.
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Egg of Meloidogyne invaded by the fungus Paecilomyces”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 308
AI critic verdicts
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Paecilomyces (now partly reclassified as Purpureocillium) is a well-documented nematophagous fungus; egg parasitism of Meloidogyne spp. is a classically reported mechanism, and the source quote directly supports the structured fields.”
- agroecologist · plausible
“Paecilomyces (notably P. lilacinus) as an egg-parasitic fungus of Meloidogyne spp. is well-documented in biocontrol literature; source quote directly supports the egg parasitism mechanism.”
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