Claim · #6494143
Setosphaeria turcica · pathogen pressure · Sorghum bicolor
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“The same fungus causes similar but smaller and darker spots on sorghum”
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- Unknown
- Year
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- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 468
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Setosphaeria turcica (northern leaf blight) is well-documented on sorghum as a secondary host with smaller, darker lesions than on maize, consistent with the source quote.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Setosphaeria turcica (teleomorph of Exserohilum turcicum) is a known pathogen of sorghum causing leaf blight; smaller, darker lesions on sorghum vs. maize is documented in plant pathology literature.”
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