Claim · #6494317
Colletotrichum gloeosporioides · pathogen pressure · Malus domestica
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“may cause enormous losses by destroying an entire crop”
- Authors
- Unknown
- Year
- Unknown
- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
- Page
- 494
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Colletotrichum gloeosporioides causing bitter rot on apple fruit with high severity in warm humid conditions near harvest is well-supported biologically and by the source quote.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (s.l.) causing bitter rot on apple fruit in warm humid conditions near harvest is well-documented; source quote supports high-severity crop loss claim.”
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