Claim · #6494127
Taphrina pruni · pathogen pressure · Prunus domestica
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“50% or more of the fruit may be affected and lost”
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- Year
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- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 445
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Taphrina pruni is the correct ascomycete pathogen causing plum pocket on Prunus domestica, affecting fruit in spring; 50%+ loss figures are consistent with documented outbreak severity.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Taphrina pruni is the well-established ascomycete fungus causing 'plum pocket' on Prunus domestica fruit, with documented high crop losses; source quote supports the 50% figure.”
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