Claim · #6494361
Botryosphaeria obtusa · pathogen pressure · Malus domestica
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“canker of branches and limbs that may destroy the tree”
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- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
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- 519
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Botryosphaeria obtusa is a well-established fungal pathogen of Malus domestica causing frog-eye leaf spot, black rot fruit decay, and limb cankers in the US; all fields are consistent.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Botryosphaeria obtusa is a well-established ascomycete pathogen of Malus domestica causing frog-eye leaf spot, black rot, and limb cankers in the US; all fields are consistent.”
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