Claim · #6494079
Phytophthora infestans · pathogen pressure · Solanum tuberosum
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“The late blight disease of potatoes is the most devastating disease of potatoes in the world.”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 421
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Phytophthora infestans as oomycete causing high-severity late blight on all parts of Solanum tuberosum in cool wet conditions is textbook-accurate and source quote directly supports the severity classification.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“P. infestans as oomycete pathogen of S. tuberosum causing late blight is textbook-correct; source quote supports severity claim; no eponymous conflation or direction error.”
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