Claim · #6494078
Pythium · pathogen pressure · Picea abies
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“treatment of Norway spruce seedlings with methyl jasmonate protected up to 75% of the seedlings.”
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- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 414
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Pythium as an oomycete damping-off pathogen of conifer seedlings is well-established; methyl jasmonate inducing resistance in Picea abies is documented, and the 75% protection claim aligns with the source quote.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Pythium (oomycete) causing damping-off of conifer seedlings including Norway spruce is well-established; methyl jasmonate as an elicitor of induced resistance is biologically consistent.”
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