Claim · #6494093
Phytophthora cinnamomi · pathogen pressure · Quercus
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“principal cause of mortality of at least three species of native forest oaks.”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 418
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“P. cinnamomi is a well-documented oomycete root pathogen of oaks; 'oak dieback' as common name is slightly imprecise but the organism type, severity, and affected parts are biologically consistent with the source quote.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“P. cinnamomi is a well-documented oomycete root pathogen of Quercus spp. causing dieback/mortality; oomycete classification and host-pathogen direction are correct.”
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