Claim · #6494024
Hemileia vastatrix · pathogen pressure · Coffea arabica
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Ceylon was forced to abandon coffee production entirely, switching... to tea”
- Authors
- Vandermeer J.H.
- Year
- 2009
- Page
- 212
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Hemileia vastatrix devastated Ceylon's coffee industry in the 1870s-1880s, historically forcing the well-documented shift to tea; source quote aligns with structured fields.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Hemileia vastatrix devastated Ceylon's coffee industry in the 1870s–1880s, historically documented as driving the shift to tea; organism type, host, and damage are all correct.”
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