Claim · #6494247
Mycosphaerella fijiensis · pathogen pressure · Musa spp.
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Mycosphaerella, causing leaf spots on many plants, such as the Sigatoka diseases of banana (M. musicola and M. fijiensis)”
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- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 395
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Source quote directly confirms M. musicola causes Sigatoka disease on banana leaves; organism type 'fungus' and affected_part 'leaf' are all consistent.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Mycosphaerella musicola (Yellow Sigatoka) is a well-established ascomycete pathogen of Musa spp. leaves; source quote correctly names both M. musicola and M. fijiensis as banana Sigatoka pathogens.”
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