Claim · #6494407
Hemileia vastatrix · pathogen pressure · Coffea arabica
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“the most destructive disease of coffee”
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- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
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AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Hemileia vastatrix is a well-documented basidiomycete fungal pathogen causing coffee leaf rust on Coffea arabica leaves; 1970 Brazil arrival date and high severity are historically accurate.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Hemileia vastatrix is a well-established oomycete-like basidiomycete fungus causing coffee leaf rust on Coffea arabica; arrival in Brazil ~1970 and Americas spread are historically documented facts.”
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