Claim · #6494022
Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“the Irish potato blight was the largest human tragedy ever caused by agriculture”
- Authors
- Vandermeer J.H.
- Year
- 2009
- Page
- 211
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Phytophthora infestans as catastrophic oomycete pathogen of Solanum tuberosum affecting whole plant is well-established; source quote supports severity classification despite minor paraphrase.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Phytophthora infestans (oomycete) causing catastrophic late blight of Solanum tuberosum in 1840s Ireland is historically and taxonomically well-established; source quote slightly overstates but supports the structured fields.”
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