Claim · #6493931
Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Young potato plant becomes infected and is soon killed by the late blight oomycete Phytophthora infestans.”
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AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“P. infestans infecting potatoes at young plant stage via infected seed tubers causing rapid death is textbook late blight biology; source quote directly supports all structured fields.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“P. infestans infecting potato (Solanum tuberosum) causing rapid death is textbook oomycete pathology; source quote directly supports the structured fields with no eponymous conflation.”
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