Claim · #6494189
Botryosphaeria dothidea · pathogen pressure · Platanus occidentalis
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“causing canker on apple, peach, almond, sycamore, pecan, etc.”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 473
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Botryosphaeria dothidea is a well-documented broad-host canker pathogen; sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) inclusion among hosts is consistent with literature.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Botryosphaeria dothidea is a well-documented broad-host-range canker pathogen on Platanus and all listed hosts; source quote directly supports the structured claim.”
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