Colletotrichum coccodes · pathogen pressure · Solanum lycopersicum

AI critic verdicts

• agroecologist · plausible

  “Colletotrichum coccodes as causal agent of tomato anthracnose/ripe rot on ripening fruit, especially canning tomatoes, is well-established in plant pathology literature; source quote directly supports the extracted claim.”

• plant-pathologist · plausible

  “Colletotrichum coccodes is the well-established causal agent of tomato anthracnose/ripe rot, with documented pre- and post-harvest losses especially on processing/canning tomatoes.”

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