Claim · #6494065
Plasmopara · pathogen pressure · Vitis vinifera
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“downy mildews of dicotyledonous plants, such as lettuce, tobacco, grape, and cucurbits.”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 409
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Peronospora tabacina is the well-established oomycete causing blue mold/downy mildew on tobacco; source quote explicitly lists tobacco among downy mildew hosts.”
- plant-pathologist · implausible
“Tobacco downy mildew is caused by Peronospora hyoscyami (syn. P. tabacina), but the source quote only lists tobacco among host examples without asserting Peronospora is destructive on it; more critically, 'Peronospora' alone is genus-level and the organism_type 'oomycete' is correct, yet the eponymous conflation risk is low here — the real issue is the source quote does not support the 'destructive' severity claim extracted.”
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